Huge Ancient City Complex Found in Ecuador Jungle

[57r.1283]

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.

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 ?

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.

[Dhu on Gate]

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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