Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmos0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 9, 2020
Laser and satellite technology revealed more than 35 villages.
Laser and satellite technology revealed more than 35 villages.
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Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.
The remains of dozens of fortified villages, built before the arrival of Europeans, have been found in a relatively remote region of the Amazon. It seems the southern periphery of the Amazon was home to a million people before 1500 AD – far more than assumed.