2024-05-27 11:15:36
It was a tremendous discovery: the invention underneath the Amazon forest of a community of roads and backyard cities, the wards of a fancy, a totally unknown civilization. Why and the way did these corporations disappear? Broken, forgotten, erased by official historical past?
Let’s observe the footsteps of the misplaced cities of the Amazon, round a tremendous discovery: the invention, underneath the quilt of the Amazon forest, of actual backyard cities, linked by a street.
Guards and witnesses of a fancy, utterly unknown civilization that lived, purified, planted and constructed the biggest and oldest city heart within the Amazon, alongside the Upano River in Ecuador, years 2,500 in the past.
Why did these pre-Hispanic societies develop a lot that the Amazon disappeared? Forgotten, decimated? Disappear from historical past? How did our visitor, the archaeologist Stephen Rostain, as iconoclastic as he persevered, reach explicit, due to the lidar method, in bringing these backyard cities to gentle? Vibrant in taking all of the preconceived notions in regards to the so-called virgin forest of the Amazon, but in addition in regards to the indigenous folks and the cultures that lived in it lengthy earlier than the arrival of the Spanish colonies…
With an archaeologist, an knowledgeable within the Amazon Stephen Rostain.
An article from CNRS: Historical cities within the Amazon.
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