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Archaeologists Triple the Scale of an Ancient Amazonian Civilization We Know Almost Nothing About

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Hundreds of geometric earthworks were recently found in the southwestern Amazon, evidence that a monument-building, precolonial civilization was so much larger than previously thought. The scale of this hidden world of massive earthen construction projects only began to truly be understood this decade, but a recent aerial survey using laser radar has dramatically increased the […] The post Archaeologists Triple the Scale of an Ancient Amazonian Civilization We Know Almost Nothing About appeared first on Good News Network.

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