The AMAZON | NEW Study Finds Hidden Earthworks Including GEOGLYPHS

[@MegalithHunter]

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[@HistoryWithKayleigh]

The Amazon has still so many secrets hidden from us, can't wait for more to be revealed in the future, exciting times Laura!!!❤❤

[@JJBSJC86]

I live in the Amazon it's amazing how little people even here know about this. There is so much under the canopy.

[@kristybarker924]

I just discovered that there are people living there that are still hunter-gatherers. I didn't realize Hunter gatherers still existed.

[@LeRoy-t4e]

All of your videos are like Christmas presents to me. Thank you much 😊

[@MegalithHunter]

So nice of you 😀

[@chrisbricky7331]

Thanks for the hard work and sharing it with us. Chris

[@MegalithHunter]

My pleasure ☺️

[@chrisbricky7331]

I was aware of the Amazon black dirt culture as there was no other name from friends during the 70's who were into archaeology. There were mentions about it for decades, then Graham Hancock kept going on about it and now finally we are getting work done. Would be interesting to dig down in the carbonized dirt to the bottom layers and get a carbon date to see how old that technology was. I should have said dates because this should be standard for every single site the dirt is found at, core to the bottom in multiple places, date the dirt in layers from bottom to top across multiple cores at multiple sites and get some consensus dates for the technique but also the culture and see if you can map the spread of the agricultural technique from site to site and across the Amazon basin based on the dating. Would be a wonderful dig/site adventure to be involved in. Truly changing our understanding of South America and the Amazon basin and its peoples and culture. This could lead to beginning and end dates for the culture and might tie into how and why it disappeared. With my hypothesis tying into small pox spread from Colonization. But that would be very interesting to dig further into.

[@billstapleton1084]

Great informative video. Keep up the good work.

[@MegalithHunter]

Thanks, will do! 😀😀😀

[@billmiller4972]

Great video! Thanks especially for the part about the Amazon basin.

[@kariannecrysler640]

Since the Amazon is rainforest, I would guess the ditches would have been used as ditches for water management and to keep the living area drier

[@rotorheadstu]

Logical and valid points, but why go through the effort of exact geometric shapes and cardinal alignment? Human time and energy being finite, it would make more sense to align the channels with the slope, if any, to drain the water away since stagnant water brings unpleasant side effects.

[@kariannecrysler640]

@@rotorheadstu it’s equator ish location makes the seasons more difficult to track planting in. Plus’s you have tropical storm seasons that would be identified by month. A calendar most likely. On design how do any of us know it had deep meaning? Maybe they just liked beautiful things and found it beautiful. Like how solar farms are set up and look all geometrical and aligned to the sun, a practical reason but if it’s discovered thousand years after, who’s to say they wouldn’t think ritual 🤭

[@rotorheadstu]

@@kariannecrysler640 Perhaps I misunderstood your original comment to imply that they were only for practical purposes, not the dual purpose of drainage AND significant geometric and alignment representation.

[@kariannecrysler640]

@@rotorheadstu just offering the more mundane explanation to balance

[@armandbourque2468]

​@@rotorheadstulikely something to do with religion. Which is always concerned with power, control, and public relations/propaganda to maintain power and control. There's always a con artist in any society.

[@greendragonreprised6885]

Maybe it's because I watched a programme about it earlier today but, the Lake Constance structure sounds like a crannog. They are more common in Scotland and Ireland but a lake is a lake and if this one would be about 2,000 years older than the ones we know about.

[@storkythepunk]

Great video, Merry Christmas and happy new year.

[@MegalithHunter]

Merry Christmas! 🎁

[@paulb1794]

👍🦘 Merry Christmas and thank you for doing these vids

[@MegalithHunter]

Thank you! Merry Christmas 🎄

[@barrywalser2384]

There definitely needs to be more LiDAR surveys in the Amazon. I am interested in the lost structures there, however, I was really impressed by the cliff face paintings. Amazing images. I’m intrigued by the rocks in Lake Constance. Could they be burials? Merry Christmas! 🎄 Happy New Year! 🎊 Thank You for all your work.

[@barrywalser2384]

I have been going “down the rabbit hole” on the structures in the Amazon. The exact purpose of the enclosures is still a bit of a mystery.

[@floydriebe4755]

​@@barrywalser2384aahh, yes! the good ole "rabbit hole"🐇 cool! yeah, at least they're not calling them "temples" or "astronomical observatories"🤯 most likely had some more mundane purpose.....with, perhaps, a wee bit of some ritualistic meaning......but, then....whadda i know....h'aint been down that there hole😅 just seems to me, those were some rather practical folk.....y'know.....surviving and such🤔 definitely capable people, tho....who knows what they had in mind😮 Merry and Happy Holidays to you and yours, Barry🎄🎆🎉 chat with you later👍 cheers🍻🍾🥂🎆🎉

[@barrywalser2384]

@@floydriebe4755 Merry and Happy Holidays to you Floyd! Cheers! 🎄🎅🏼🎉🍻

[@rehoboth_farm]

You might see if NASA or USGS has lidar available. Anything that US government agencies have should be public domain.

[@david_v2.1]

The Colombian rock art still blows my mind...god knows what other beautiful things are waiting to be discovered in the rainforests.

[@JJBSJC86]

Look up Pedra do Inga and Saca de Lã both are in northeast Brazil state of Paraíba.

[@floydriebe4755]

the Amazon finds just show that the ancient peoples in the Americas were not just sittin' 'round pickin' their nose😮 they, too, were capable of planning and executing large building projects. what bothers me is, why it took a lidar survey to "find" these structures......so many were obvious, at least from the air. i would think those were identifiable at ground level, too. but, who am i to say? never been there. and, those cliff paintings are fascinating! they show that humans were there quite a long time ago, during the late ice-age, at least. they bear some resemblance to some local indigenous cliff paintings, without the extinct critters, of course. there are several sites within, say, 50 miles of my house with some cool paintings, some of which are only accessible by boat on Flathead Lake. at the time of painting, the lake was not as deep or wide. this cliff would have been reached from dry ground. kinda like the Lake Constance mounds....most likely built on dry ground. folks been around here for millenia, i guess. great stuff, Laura! i'll be waiting for more on the Amazon. know you'll do a bang-up job👍😊 Merry and Happy Holidays🎄🎉🎆 good vibes heading your way ✌❤🕊🙃

[@armandbourque2468]

An amazing integrated method of dealing with seasonal flooding. Water management, aquaculture, agriculture, orchard permaculture, all integrated. A huge enhancement of diversified productivity, on a local and regional level, using only human energy sources. We could learn from that. As always, the fly in the ointment was human nature. Religion, wars, dominance struggles, cultural limitations. Maybe that's humanity's way of trying to keep our numbers down to a locally sustainable level.

[@MrGaborseres]

👍 Awesome information Thank you 👍

[@Mrbfgray]

Mr. Hancock has some dubious notions but also real value to add. Fascinating material, thank you. I've been making "bio-char" for my modest lot for yrs, become fairly efficient at it. Yes originally recognized from Amazon soils, although my soils are already excellent, unlike rainforest soils, char seems to make them even better.

[@L98fiero]

At around 3500 BCE, wouldn't that make the stone piles in lake Constance corresponding with the lifetime of Otzi, the man recovered from the glaciers in Switzerland?

[@timkbirchico8542]

god vid. Thanks. Seasons Greetings x

[@MegalithHunter]

Enjoy! 🥳

[@kristybarker924]

I find it fascinating that(supposedly) there are still some hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon still too this day.

[@SuperRobinjames]

Thanks

[@judewarner1536]

Almost all ancient cultures recognised sky gods or sky spirits, depending on the stage of the culture. The geoglyphs in the Americas appear to be predominantly totemic, which would fit a shamanic / spirit-based culture. The glyphs, which are clearly images of a spirit / totemic nature, would be visible to, and understood by, spirits in the sky to be a recognition of their supernatural power over their ground-based worshipers... no flying aliens or pre-neolithic aeroplanes required!

[@ednafernandes7054]

The Fort called Principe da Beira, in Amazon, allegedly built by Portugueses, now after some research, they realized was there before the Portugueses,and we dont know who built or the purpose of that fort.

[@MegalithHunter]

Wow will check it out

[@Dimitri-Jordania]

Every single thing about this podcast is the 🐝's knees

[@MegalithHunter]

Thank you!!! 😀

[@fennynough6962]

Did you say Harry Potter! I thought he was a Dargon Wizard?🧙‍♂️ As the Forested Jungles reclaim these Prehistoric Sites, they lay down layers of Sedimentary strata. This is a Geology Dating of time; yet when the Olmec Heads were found under 25 feet of this Clay, how many Geologists confirmed that they were 250,000 year old? Nice Dinosaur🦕 Pictographs here! Thanks Laura, happy Holiday!🎄☃️🦌✝️🕯

[@madderhat5852]

Merry Christmas KZbin algorithm .

[@Amenogoogle]

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[@danielgregg2530]

No scientist should utter the words, "Graham Hancock" in any technical context if at all possible (you'd might as well make reference to Harry Potter).

[@brianriley5383]

To call this motley collection of thin stone slabs the Amazonian Stonehenge is to insult the builders of that remarkable Wiltshire monument. Truely megalithic monuments are rare in Central and South America. and non existant north of the Rio Grande -- until the arrival of Europeans.

[@tinkerstrade3553]

You might want to hold that thought. Look up the Megaliths of Montana. Or maybe look at a wall, in Wall, Texas, that was found by early settlers. North America wasn't some vast wildlife preserve prior to the Clovis Culture. And whoever was here thousands of years before the People's of the Ice came south may have left clues we haven't thought about. Just saying.

[@tangara7166]

Cahokia, near st Louis, mounds all throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio. Yeah, nothing north of the Rio grande... and I don't know what your definition of rare is, but there a are megalithic structures everywhere in Central and South America. What planet do you live on?

[@brianriley5383]

I am well aware of the earthen mounds at Cahokia and elsewhere in the US. One contained evidence of mass human sacrifice. I said there were no megalithic monuments there weighing more than 10 tons and there are nt as far as I am aware.perhaps you know of some. The central American pyramids are made of much smaller stones. The heaviest stones at Avebury are 60 -90 tons, at Stonehenge over 40. Western Europe has even heavier megaliths.@@tangara7166

[@Stonecutter334]

And yet another huge advanced culture pops up where academics said for decades there was nothing. Its almost like they know absolutely nothing isn’t it?