This article has a few images that better demonstrate what is meant by "city" or "multiple sites":<p><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-complex-ecuador-amazon-laser" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-complex-ec...</a>
How can they just claim the city's been "found" when it's been known about for half a century? All they did (that's relevant to the article) is a recent LIDAR survey of a site they've been digging on for 25 years.
I dont' know what the hell he means with this Eurocentric view. We know a lot about ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, we know about Göbekli Tepe that is from Neolithic period, we know also about many African and Asian civilizations.<p>We are also well aware about ancient settlements in America, especially in the Amazon area.<p>That a professor with an European name doesn't know much about this is his own personal problem but him peddling this false information and BBC going along with this creates a larger issue.
> Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.
Recommended reading: "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/1400078458/ref=asc_df_1400078458&mcid=59c578a50a633104be5ab321b8b9c47e?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79852149837958&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583451676511066&psc=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/...</a>)<p>Ref also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_of_Z" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_of_Z</a> for more info about Col. Fawcett and this story.
If lower Manhattan were discovered, would it also be characterized as being for "ceremonial purposes" that would have <i>a "very powerful meaning", perhaps linked to a ceremony or belief.</i>
It’s really tiring to see that every new finding shows us how everything is Eurocentric and problematic. What is the point of putting that vapid moralising into the article? It’s not even that true. Europeans have been searching for cities in the Amazon for hundreds of years and found evidence that they existed.<p>2003 - Lost cities of the Amazon revealed: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3077413" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3077413</a><p>2008 - Ancient Amazon Actually Highly Urbanized: <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-amazon-cities/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-amazon-citie...</a><p>2019 - Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people: <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132130-300-long-lost-cities-in-the-amazon-were-once-home-to-millions-of-people/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132130-300-long-los...</a>