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Seleni, in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

Love how ‘everyone just knew’ there weren’t any large ancient civilizations in the Amazon even though they’d never bothered looking. Glad someone is finally setting the record straight.

MisterD, in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

And all it took was to cut down the forest

Gamoc, in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

Headline: “huge ancient city”

Article: “mounds”

Microw,

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Thats what happens to a city taken back by nature and lying undisturbed for 500+ years… there is a reason why the only preserved Roman ruin cities are in the Sahara or next to the Mount Vesuvius

Agent641,

Jungle is the absolute worst place for preserving an ancient city.

Gamoc,

Yeah it’s not really their fault I guess, “huge ancient city” just conjured images of ruined buildings and stuff, that’s all. Made me laugh

Anticorp,

They’re there, under 500 years worth of dirt.

lvxferre, in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
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The settlement is right at the border of what would be controlled by the Inca government, two millenniums later. It shows that there’s some decent access to the region from the west than you’d be led to believe, with the Andes in the way.

As such, if they find other cities further east, I’m predicting that, culturally speaking, they’ll resemble nothing this one; even if they happen to be roughly the same size.

People ate maize and sweet potato, and probably drank “chicha”, a type of sweet beer.

“If you don’t have chicha, any small thing will do.” (reference to a certain song)

Serious now. Potentially yucca too - it grows right next door, and if they got maize from North America then they likely traded for crops.

Lemmygradwontallowme, (edited ) in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
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If only they didn’t go to the kukuias…

Harpsist, in Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

Move evidence that main stream archeological science will do anything to not accept.

rockSlayer, in 2,700-year-old temple with altar overflowing with jewel-studded offerings unearthed on Greek island

Inb4 the British museum claims that Greece can’t take care of the artifacts

lvxferre, in Part of Hadrian's 1,800-year-old aqueduct and rare Greek coins unearthed near Corinth
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Hadrian was a big fan of this sort of large, public project. Besides the aqueduct there’s also Hadrian’s Wall (right at the border of Rome with the Picts, in Britannia) and the temple for Venus and Roma in the city.

Although… what interested me the most in the article wasn’t this sort of modern stuff, it was

the remains [in Greece] of a prehistoric settlement thought to be from the Bronze Age, roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.

That’s an interesting period of the peninsula, as it was likely already Indo-Europeanised, but not Hellenised. Proto-Greek would be a bit after that, starting around 2200 BCE; but you already had Illyrian, Messapic, Thracian, Dacian, and perhaps Phrygian. (It’s kind of hard to know if they’re part of the same IE branch, or if similarities between them are areal. Greek in special borrowed quite a bit from native languages.)

breadsmasher, in Ancient Roman necropolis holding more than 60 skeletons and luxury goods discovered in central Italy
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

mmm roman crust

CommunistBear, in Ancient chewing gum reveals stone age diet - Stockholm University

It also shows that one of the individuals had severe problems with her teeth.

Just like me fr fr

xilliah, in 1,000-year-old cemetery with dead wearing dramatic rings on their necks and buckets on their feet found in Ukraine

Don’t judge them they were still figuring things out.

JoMomma, (edited ) in A Massive Tsunami Could Have Wiped Out Populations in Stone Age Britain

Maybe the source of so many flood related mythos

Gloria,
AbouBenAdhem, in Prehistoric chefs retained strong cooking traditions, ancient pottery and DNA analysis reveals

I’m not sure I understand the reasoning.

Are they saying that the initial spread of millet was the sticky variety, and the non-sticky variant was created locally by people favoring bread? Or did the non-sticky variant spread first, and the sticky variant arose later but only replaced the earlier variant where people preferred porridge?

ProfessorOwl_PhD, in Engraving on 2,000-year-old knife thought to be oldest runes in Denmark
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The ancient Norse equivalent of going crazy with the label maker

JoMomma, in Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Hunting was dangerous and cost a lot of energy

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