And why they were so hard to see
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The Amazon has always been one of the most mysterious places on earth.
When European colonizers arrived in the 16th century, they were captivated by rumors of a golden city, hidden somewhere in the rainforest. Their search for βEl Doradoβ lasted more than a century, but only resulted in disaster, death, and further conquest of the indigenous people there.
Experts thereafter looked at the Amazon and saw only a desolate jungle; too harsh for extensive agriculture and therefore sparsely populated. They believed that it had always been this way.
Until recently.
Beginning in the late 20th century, archaeologists began looking more closely at the forest floor. Working with the indigenous people who still remained there, they excavated long ditches and mounds. After mapping them, they could see that these were the markings of large settlements; walls, moats, plazas, and roads that connected even more settlements. And they were all over the Amazon.
Further reading:
The Lost City of Z, David Grann
Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the Lost City of Z, Percy Fawcett
The works of Michael Heckenberger; https://anthro.ufl.edu/2013/09/29/heckenberger/
Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4
The geoglyph sites of Acre, Brazil: 10 000-year-old land-use practices and climate change in Amazonia https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/geoglyph-sites-of-acre-brazil-10-000yearold-landuse-practices-and-climate-change-in-amazonia/6E74670EB776FB3DE3EE426A87847C33
Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2475
The Lore of Lost Cities β Imagining The Lost City Of Z https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidanderson/2019/04/30/the-lore-of-lost-cities-imagining-the-lost-city-of-z/?sh=2114a4fc4862
Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazonβs Lost World
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/americas/land-carvings-attest-to-amazons-lost-world.html
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Humans lived HARMONIOUSLY with the land.
Really good book on this.
Graham Hancock has been on this for years
Recent LIDAR scans have shown huge cities a vast network of roads connecting all of them. It wasn't thousands but millions of people who inhabited these. The jungle just grew over everything hiding all traces.
Fawcett never called the city 'Zee'. He called it 'Zed'.
Everywhere that have fresh water their is human and animal.
From the evidence I am not really seeing this alleged millions in population in the Amazon. Im seeing evidence for large villages only.
Love seeing high quality archaeology content from Vox, as an archaeology student from Vienna it really helps to bring a broader perspective on the topic!
is it seriously called z like the special operation (invasion) carried by the russian government? is he going to try to reconquer the americas?
What's the evidence of your claims that millions of people had advanced civilizations throughout the amazon.
Very neat!! π
Shoutout to Graham Hancock
The think with Native American structures is that it was made with natural items. Once abandon the land just took it back. I believe the Americas were complete covered with cities and tribes. I 100% believe that the Europeans brought three plagues to the Natives. One that came at first contact (the entire Native American social structure was destroyed here), the second contact in 1500 of the Spanish and Aztecs, and the final contact of the North American colonies in 1600. You've seen what Covid did to the world. Now imagine losing 90% of your population. That would complete undermine the ENTIRE complex social structure. What the Spanish found in the Mexico with the Aztec's were basically the post-apocalypse world that had recovered only to get destroyed again. And what the colonist found in North American was post-apocalypse world that grew from the first post-apocalypse. What the colonist saw was a VERY small fraction of what the Native Americans power was.
The amount of culture and history that has been lost just keeps growing. I hope we are able to recover what has lost to time and human action
And its europe again
Just wait until they start uncovering the ancient megaliths across the americas
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Hancock did a better analysis
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is anyone else curious about the pics around the 6:09 mark, another earlier as well
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That is so cool I had no idea Percy Fawcett was real I thought he was just a character in tomb raider β€
Lost city z
Ancient apocalypse guy would be so happy
and if you think about it dinos and other creatures where probably tamed and aided in the building prosess
Most European disease originated in the middle east and asia
The point where you said he desappeared is not "Amazon", it's called Cerrado, o Pantanal and it's vegetation is way different.
1:24 it's not pronounced "mecksikuh"… It's pronounced "mecheeka" or "mesheeka"
Fawcett just doesn't have advance technology to find it
It's why he can't found it
I found El Derodo PS3 days With Nathan Drake
Tenochtitlan is Atlantis
Had to turn it off when you suggested: "the more racist theories are…" ππππ€¦πΎββοΈπ€¦πΎββοΈπ€¦πΎββοΈ
Just curious how they know it was small pox that whipped out their civilization. Or was that part just a hypothesis cause I've seen many say it was small pox. Not trying to call you like your the one guy saying that. Honestly curious about that part of the discovery.
Wait. His body is still missing to this day?
I am here because of fawcett
Ah! poor Fawcett if only he had a prime membership
We could so fit a bunch of mega malls there
Grahm hancock
The Atoltecayotl was civilization that ran from Canada to the Amazon β¦ this continent was greater than Europe. There was a genocide our ancestors and prophets were killed to create a new world. Good video ππππ
I doubt they "coexisted" with the forest. They just didn't develop the tech to change their enviroment at a large scale
βLong ago, Americans lived together in the Amazon. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.β
Its found in South Africa lol π
LIDAR
"disproportionate size"
At least one city left evidence that it collapsed due to corruption crime religious oppression… politics…..
Percy Fawcett was English. He didn't Zee but Zed. Get it right.
The amount of humen killed by Europeans is unimaginable . We needs peace now.
Interesting
So basically it reinforces the fact European Empires committed a 400 million genocide in Americas
This is beautiful, I think if Europeans had learned from these indigenous groups of people in Brazil, south America would have learned to be a much more eco friendly place.