'Urban' Villages Counter Ancient Amazon Theory

Five hundred years ago, the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana paddled the length of the Amazon River in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. He didn't find it. And no one has found lost cities in the Amazon forests. Twentieth-century anthropologists concluded there weren't any, believing that "urbanism" in pre-Columbian South America existed only in the Andes Mountains.

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Earlier thread here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
This is a more recent article to the one posted five years back.
It's interesting to me, as it shows how, despite some claims to teh contrary, the ideas of Archaeologists are changed, and improved upon.

[edit on 24-12-2008 by RuneSpider]

[edit on 24-12-2008 by RuneSpider]

Archeology is just like any other science. It's always changing and ideas are tested and challenged. Only recently archeologists found evidence of a huge city and examples of urbanization in the surrounding jungle.

As ever, people are already attracted by the possibilities of new mysteries. The legend of a white skinned tribe has already been attached to this discovery. This link shows what the villages would look like.

It's easy to say with hindsight, but urbanism is a necessity for any organized culture to support a city. Infrastructure by it's very nature is a requirement of societies.

[edit on 24-12-2008 by Kandinsky]