The ground below is teeming with vast pyramids and waterways.🔎
Thanks to millions of lasers fired from a helicopter flying over the dense Amazon basin, the discovery was made.
In total, the researchers uncovered two new big settlement sites named Cotoca and Landvar and 24 minor sites, 15 of which were previously unknown. According to their research, the villages date from around 500 CE to 1400 CE, when this section of the Bolivian Amazon was home to the Casarabe civilization. And the complexity of the previously unknown settlements is apparently “mind-blowing”, according to team researcher Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute.
This is crucial since the Amazon was long thought to be a wilderness until Europeans arrived. Scientists came up with the idea after concluding that the rainforest was too wild and thick to host large-scale human settlements.
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