[Aztlan] Fw: Re: LARGE ANCIENT AMAZON TOWNS BEING UNCOVERED

[donald raab]

--- On Fri, 8/29/08, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com> wrote:

From: michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] LARGE ANCIENT AMAZON TOWNS BEING UNCOVERED
To: modeldon_9 at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:57 AM


Hi Don,


You should send this note to AZTLAN. If 1200-1600 CE was the high point then we can guess it started to become urban many hundreds of years before. << My own view unsupported is these were much olderJ-Don>>jungles are surprisingly ecologically frail places. Too much development in that area may have brought about very unfriendly ecological conditions and they disappeared into the jungle just as the Maya peoples shrank back into their villages and rural areas where they still live today<< unlike the May who are not lost these guys are-Don>>.


But again, please post this to the group. I enjoy your e-mails.


Mike






On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:05 AM, donald raab wrote:






Mike,
 
This is a big change.  Just a few years ago the Amazon was considered a pristine and unoccupied area.  it was with the discovery of the raised lands and canals from the air that some began to realise something extraordinary happened here.  The manmade works rival any on this planet.  What is really striking is these creations were not monuments with little or no functionality (other than burial-pyramids). This was engineering on a scale unseen to be a regional breadbasket.where the land and terrain were terraformed for that purpose.  The questions just keep on coming.  I'm building a new RC model that is an amphibian.  It too will have alive tv system and GPS overlay.  More than willing to survey for expenses and I'm not a 5 star guy.  it would be interesting to compare video with sattelite images.
 
1.  Who was it for?
2.  Where did they go?
3.  Why was it abandoned?
4.  What timeframe does it encompass?
5.  How did they survey these artifacts before constructing them?  The discussion about drawings or models for a mayan temple pale into insignificane comapared to this.  The distances are similar to our freeways.
6.  Jungle.  What kind of social organization did they have?  The jungle is relentless.  Can you imaging the size of the crews necessary to maintain these sites?  No lawnmowers here.
 
Don

--- On Thu, 8/28/08, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com> wrote:

From: michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
Subject: [Aztlan] LARGE ANCIENT AMAZON TOWNS BEING UNCOVERED
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 3:17 PM

Listeros,
Ongoing research in the Amazon is returning more proof that it was  
once an area of densely populated urban centers in ancient times.  
Michael Heckenberger and his research team published their findings  
in the journal Science today. He has identified two major clusters of  
towns and villages with central seats of power with wide roads  
leading out to other communities. A major road aligned with the  
summer solstice intesects each town's central plaza. Larger towns  
were placed at cardinal points from the center and walled. Then there  
were fields for crops and fish farms. These clusters at their height  
between 1250-1650 AD may have housed 50,000 each.

National Geographic has the story here;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080828-amazon- 
cities.html

Mike Ruggeri

Mike Ruggeri's The Ancient Americas Breaking News
http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri













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