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Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil's border with Bolivia. The traditional view is that before the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th century there were no complex societies in the Amazon basin †in contrast to the Andes further west where the Incas built their cities. Now deforestation, increased air travel and satellite imagery are telling a different story.
"It's never-ending," says Denise Schaan of the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil, who made many of the new discoveries from planes or by examining Google Earth images. "Every week we find new structures." Some of them are square or rectangular, while others form concentric circles or complex geometric figures such as hexagons and octagons connected by avenues or roads. The researchers describe them all as geoglyphs.
Garden villages.
Human habitation.
Successful societies.
READ AT : http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427383.800-ancient-amazon-civilisatio...
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Legend of an ancient, lost civilisation deep in the Amazon ?
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David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z, believes the importance of this discovery cannot be overstated. "It shatters the prevailing notions of what the Amazon looked like before the arrival of Christopher Columbus," he says.
"For centuries, scientists assumed the jungle was simply a death trap, a counterfeit paradise' where only small, primitive, nomadic tribes existed. These discoveries show the Amazon was, in fact, home to a large civilisation that pre-dated the Incas and built an extraordinarily sophisticated society with monumental earthworks."
The implications of the discovery are wide-ranging. "This really is the beginning of a reassessment of the history. We are only beginning to understand Amazonia," says Parssinen.
Indeed, there are still those who worship Fawcett and believe that the City of Z was actually a door to an alternative universe - one website advertises expeditions to "the same portal or doorway to a kingdom that was entered by Colonel Fawcett in 1925".
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My opinion: simple geometric lines don't mean simple undeveloped life but just the opposite...

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