Nature's cover-up: An ancient Amazonian civilization
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 12:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Spanish adventurer Gaspar de Carvajal wrote of "cities that gleamed white" and "very fruitful land," on his wanderings along the Eucadorian Napo River in 1541. But today there is little evidence of such a civilization. Instead this corner of the Amazon, like the rest of the massive tropical forest, is seemingly inhospitable: full of dense, obstructive vegetation and buzzing with poisonous creepy crawlers. Amazon Rainforest - Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests - Napo River - Amazon - Peru