Topic ID #15840 - posted 1/16/2012 5:47 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World
By SIMON ROMERO Published: January 14, 2012
RIO BRANCO, Brazil — Edmar Araújo still remembers the awe.
Pre-Columbian artifacts, found near some of the geoglyphs in Acre State, offer clues to their origin.
As he cleared trees on his family’s land decades ago near Rio Branco, an outpost in the far western reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, a series of deep earthen avenues carved into the soil came into focus.
“These lines were too perfect not to have been made by man,” said Mr. Araújo, a 62-year-old cattleman. “The only explanation I had was that they must have been trenches for the war against the Bolivians.”
Read more here.
By SIMON ROMERO Published: January 14, 2012
RIO BRANCO, Brazil — Edmar Araújo still remembers the awe.
Pre-Columbian artifacts, found near some of the geoglyphs in Acre State, offer clues to their origin.
As he cleared trees on his family’s land decades ago near Rio Branco, an outpost in the far western reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, a series of deep earthen avenues carved into the soil came into focus.
“These lines were too perfect not to have been made by man,” said Mr. Araújo, a 62-year-old cattleman. “The only explanation I had was that they must have been trenches for the war against the Bolivians.”
Read more here.
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