Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest
by Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Belem, Brazil

The Guardian    Translate This Article
12 February 2025

On 12 February 2025 The Guardian reported: Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards. ...The discovery challenges historical ideas of a pristine jungle too harsh to sustain human occupation. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the fields of culture and science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

... The chronicles of Gaspar de Carvajal, the 16th-century Dominican friar who accompanied the expeditionary journeys of the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana from the Andes to the Amazon in 1541, already described elements of this built environment.

Instead of isolated Indigenous tribes, Carvajal revelled in the teeming settlements spread along riverbanks. These were no mere jungle villages but cities with 'throngs of Indians' so numerous and densely packed that 'were a pin to drop from the sky, it would land on the head of an 'Indian', never falling to the ground'. He also described the Spanish explorers being frightened by such grandiose engineering work.

Even allowing for colonial hype, Carvajal was on to something.

...By deploying remote sensing for archaeology, scans for radiocarbon dating, soil chemistry, and phytolith analysis (the study of microscopic mineral deposits in ancient plant remains), multidisciplinary teams of scientists have been detecting traces of Amazon basin cities far older, larger, more populous -- and more sustainably run -- than anyone had imagined.

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