The Book of Mormon has made this claim for years
There is absolutely nothing being found here that is consistent with the Book of Mormon besides very general things like people lived there.
Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
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Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#32Just 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"
> Even if what they claim is not completely right
It seems even this is not the case and that the show is just completely wrong.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#33The Book of Mormon has made this claim for years
That there were cities on the American continent 2500 years ago? Is this supposed to vindicate the Book of Mormon as somehow being truthful?
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#34Just 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.
Yeah, I'm hesitant about this.
One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know.
But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak theory. When early on, experts were telling us that science said that masks were ineffective. They were adamant.
Here, the very insistence of those experts, the aggressive tone of the wikipedia page give me an air of deja vu.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#35The 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…
>Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals?
No.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#36My 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.
That didn’t just happen in the Amazon. The Pacific Northwest had something like that. My understanding is that the Eastern American forests were curated like that too, before it was cut down.
I have heard of an oasis in North Africa that was curated this way, and it still survived despite being abandoned by humans.
The modern version of this is called a perennial food forest.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if you're aware, but Ancient Apocalypse is pseudo science.
Yeah, I'm hesitant about this. One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know. But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak theory. When early on, experts were telling us that science said that masks were ineffective. They were adamant. Here, the very insistence of those experts, the aggressive tone of the wikipedia p…
The reality of the modern world cannot be explained by the history we are told.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#38My 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.
> They were modifying the forest to be more supportive of humans.
My understanding is that the rainforest as we know it exists where it does in part because humans spent such effort cultivating edible plants in the area. Many of the most edible crops are not native to the regions in which they now grow, there's not much evidence of ancient-grown forest before ~5kya, and there's good evidence of burn-based plant and soil management.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm hesitant about this. One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know. But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak theory. When early on, experts were telling us that science said that masks were ineffective. They were adamant. Here, the very insistence of those experts, the aggressive tone of the wikipedia p…
The reality of the modern world cannot be explained by the history we are told.
? How do you figure? The idea of "fully explaining" the modern world seems a ridiculous concept but it's not like we have alternatives to the concept of looking to the past in a methodical manner.
Re: Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm hesitant about this. One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know. But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak theory. When early on, experts were telling us that science said that masks were ineffective. They were adamant. Here, the very insistence of those experts, the aggressive tone of the wikipedia p…
The reality of the modern world cannot be explained by the history we are told.
You mean by the history we are told in the Ancient Apocalypse series? No, probably not.
But that's the point! New information such as these discoveries in the Amazon show that the stories told by "mainstream archeology" can't explain the reality of the modern world either!
Where does that leave us? I don't know, but curiosity should be encouraged.