My favorite discovery about Amazon civilization is that the incidence of human-edible fruit trees is much higher in any area near navigable water. They were modifying the forest to be more supportive of humans.
Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
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#22So amazing that we can see this without even excavating it all.
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#23Amazing how many areas of humanities, physical sciences and informatics and engineering were required to achieve this result. Showcases the range and depth of human knowledge perfectly.
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#24Just finished watching "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. They go over this kind of discovery
It's quite speculative, but also really fascinating. Even if what they claim is not completely right, it definitely shows how the current accepted understanding of the history of the Americas needs an overhaul and a lot more research
PS: if you like this stuff, also check out the movie "The Lost City of Z"
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#25Just finished watching "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. They go over this kind of discovery It's quite speculative, but also really fascinating. Even if what they claim is not completely right, it definitely shows how the current accepted understanding of the history of the Americas needs an overhaul and a lot more research PS: if you like this stuff, also check out the movie "The Lost City of Z"
The Lost City of Z, the book, was fascinating. Highly recommended. Didn’t see the movie.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#26My favorite discovery about Amazon civilization is that the incidence of human-edible fruit trees is much higher in any area near navigable water. They were modifying the forest to be more supportive of humans.
Where did you read this? I’ve read in multiple places that the jungle there is quite inhospitable to humans because there is little easily accessible food. The source that comes to mind is the book The Lost City of Z.
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#27http://benedante.blogspot.com/2024/01/kunguints-sangay-and-w...
The previous common-sense belief was that the Amazon was never densely populated and had always been exactly like it is today, a dense forest with primitive tribes scattered hundreds of km apart. Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic, at the “elvis isn’t dead” or “the US reads all the world’s email” level of conspiracy theories. So playing down these disco…
> Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic
You are right. However, not only Brazilian researchers, an not just 20 years ago
Check out the movie "The Lost City of Z" or the story of Percy Fawcett
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#28My favorite discovery about Amazon civilization is that the incidence of human-edible fruit trees is much higher in any area near navigable water. They were modifying the forest to be more supportive of humans.
Where did you read this? I’ve read in multiple places that the jungle there is quite inhospitable to humans because there is little easily accessible food. The source that comes to mind is the book The Lost City of Z.
There's now a consensus of evidence that large areas of the Amazon were planted and cultivated. Bear in mind this an enormous area, and multiple civilisations would have been active simultaneously over thousands of years.
Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adi6317
Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2162-7.epdf
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#29Just finished watching "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. They go over this kind of discovery It's quite speculative, but also really fascinating. Even if what they claim is not completely right, it definitely shows how the current accepted understanding of the history of the Americas needs an overhaul and a lot more research PS: if you like this stuff, also check out the movie "The Lost City of Z"
I don't know if you're aware, but Ancient Apocalypse is pseudo science.
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#30The Book of Mormon has made this claim for years
Every time I see news about cities discovered in south america I look to see if the dates line up with the Nephite/Lamanite civilizations of the Book of Mormon (roughly 600 BC to 400 AD). This is the closest yet that I've seen. I'm eager to see what they discover in the coming years about their culture and government. Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals? It will be interesting to watch this investigation unfold.