Re: Huge Ancient City Complex Found in Ecuador Jungle

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:10:00 -0500, 57r.1283 wrote:

> https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671
> 
> A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden
> for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
> 
> The discovery changes what we know about the history of
> people living in the Amazon.

There's a lot we don' know about civilization in Amazonia.
For one thing there was a dense river based culture that 
created artificial soils because Jungle soils are usually 
deficient.

> 
> The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern
> Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of
> roads and canals.
> 
> The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created
> rich local soils but also may have led to the
> destruction of the society.
> 
> The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people
> lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to
> archaeologists.
> 
> . . .
> 
>    THEN - major civ.
> 
>    NOW - drug-gang civil war ....
> 
>    Odd how the future turns out, isn't it ?
> 

No certainty here, but it was prob'ly some kinda
pox from Yurope that did 'em in.  More survivors 
in North America (possibly 'cause of previous contact?)


>    In any case, it does seem that once you get a
>    certain critical mass of population density
>    "civilization" appears. This means that the
>    stuff of higher-civ is in our collective heads,
>    an "emergent property" just waiting for the
>    proper stimulus.

Yeah yeah.  "The wide world dreaming on things to come", aye?  
Just remember that National(social?)ism is how that turns into 
a nightmare.  I had a history prof name of Ken Taylor used to
make a point sayin' "Nationalism Kills".  He'd been an officer 
in one of the Guards regiments (Coldstream?).

Dhu


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