Oldest Amazonian Civilization

AAAS: “<a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/laser-mapping-reveals-oldest-amazonian-cities-built-2500-years-ago?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=WeeklyLatestNews&et_rid=49284587&et_cid=5059949" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago</a>.” Over the last 2 decades archeaologists have conclusively shown the Amazon was home to complex societies long before the European colonizers arrived, but now a dnese network of interconnected cites in Ecuador’s Upano Valley has been revealed by the laser mapping technology called lidar. ‘Specially equipped planes beamed laser pulses into the forest and measured their return path, revealing topographic features otherwise invisible under the trees.’ “The settlements, <a href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6317?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D77113174842406059382090099209797799045%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1705327489" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">described today in Science</a>, are at least 2500 years old, more than 1000 years older than any other known complex Amazonian society.” Stéphen Rostain, an archaeologist at CNRS, France’s national research agency, began excavating Valley nearly 30 years ago, finding ‘mounds organized around central plazas, pottery decorated with paint and incised lines, and large jugs holding the remains of the traditional maize beer chicha.’ <a href="https://medium.com/@sandy.george.lawrence/oldest-amazonian-civilization-d681c23b6283">Read More</a>