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Judi Lynn

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10. So many European and European-descended "scientists" have maintained the view there was nothing there worth studying!
Thu Jan 11, 2024, 08:31 PM
Jan 2024

If you let it get to you, you could end up throwing your laptop(s) through the window, across the room, down the stairs, into the street repeatedly.

None as blind as those who insist they know everything already....

As you've probably heard, read, etc., the ancient structures were also made of much stronger material in the larger communities. They probably hadn't deteriorated to the point they were cutting corners to make quick profits! Maybe they were sensible enough to know everyone suffers if people aren't honest about their behavior and relationships at all levels.

Started reading and hearing years ago that early archaeologists in the Amazon in Brazil were finding, in the settlements they were discovering, that it was common for the people who grew food to amend the soil with large amounts of charcoal as a part of their natural agriculture, and that they developed incredibly productive, rich soil around the inhabited areas which have been covered by jungles through the centuries.

At the time I was hearing about the Brazilian Amazon discoveries, I had absolutely no idea they would also be uncovering civilization in the older Ecuador.

Maybe the "Eurocentric" archaeology community is going to be taken to school!

Thank you, Warpy.

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