We Just Found Something In the Amazon That Rewrites History

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[qwertzuiop]

Near my hometown (in southern Croatia), there is a small village that has been abandoned aproximatelly century and a half ago. One day, my father and I decided to try to find it. We knew the exact location of it. Still it took us around two hours to dicover any remnants of it. All the stone walls had crumbled and they were covered by moss and bramble. There were a couple of entirelly rusted nails and practically no wooden tools or structures.
If nature can swallow up a whole village built of stone in a climate that's pretty arid, I can't imagine what would happen to the wooden structures in a tropical environment

[selay]

I think everyone easily forgets how fast nature can take over an area and 200 years should be more than long enough to hide away evidence of us ever being there. Especially if structures are mainly wood.

[didnxndbfj]

my old wood working teacher was an amazonian before he left the jungle and came to sweden. He told us stories of the boats they rode in crocodile infected waters and how they navihated etc. One of the most interesting people I’ve met

[daniell]

I work at a local college and last week I had a student writing about this "gardener" style of agriculture in a culture in North America. This is so on-topic, I hope I see that student again this week specifically so I can share this video. More people need to be aware of these earlier more sustainable modes of agriculture. I think it could play a hand in helping future conservation efforts (as well as a potential replacement for monoculture farming). Fascinating video.

[sabaideebee]

when i was watching The Walking Dead several years ago, i came to a startling realization that ancient human societies could've easily been like the show, just trying to make a settlement in an unforgiving environment, connecting with others with trade, war, swallowed by nature, a thousand times over and over, and no one would know, especially if it was enough to get by with wooden structures.

[sunderark]

I went to a forest in Quebec over a decade ago, it was a rather thick forest, I think it was near Abitibi. While walking around I was surprised to find out the entire forest was actually a brimming logging town back in the day. Many people lived and worked there and it had roads and all sorts of trade amenities. Nothing was left, I found our all of this via message boards left by the trail masters, which included descriptions and maps and illustrations. You could never even tell it had all of that. The funniest thing about it? It had barely even been 80 years since people had left the town.

[djstyxxsuriname]

The Dutch used to say about my country, Suriname, that you could put a random stick in de ground and it would grow. Suriname is one of the 8 amazon countries with a little over 90% of its territory still covered by basically untouched rain forest.

[MARLEYDIDIT]

the biggest mystery here is WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT AMAZING HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE?!?!?!

[NPC-jtgp]

It is high time we take the idea of pre-iceage civilizations seriously. Sumer was not the cradle of civilization, it simply is the oldest we can get a good grip on.

Look at what glaciers do to the ground beneath it. It can crumble mountains, carry boulders larger than the giza pyramids.

[matthewconnell]

i love how the more we learn the more we realize we have so much more to learn that we thought we 'already knew'.

[crookedzebrarecords]

The grass I have on my property makes idle objects disappear, even a weedwacker! Very easy to see how civilizations can vanish! As I dig my own garden out, it's like an archaeological site where I see glimpses of how the previous owner lived while digging. Great video as usual, it really makes me rethink how I approach my small farm/garden project. I was already thinking about how I can utilize having a canopy forest.

[OhAwe]

I read a study years ago that suggested that we could tell the Amazon forest originated from huge human cultivated plantations that had long ago become 'wild'.

[sethchapman]

I love this. The fact that this isn't front page news across the globe is a crime against humanity. Thanks for sharing.

[alanbutler]

I love the stuff they've been finding in the Amazon. Been watching documentaries about it for a few years. Some of the first writings about amazing villages were thought to be made up as when travellers went back it was all gone and now they're finding evidence of huge cities and linked infrastructure. Awesome

[harrywebb]

Mate, this was incredibly interesting and engaging. I take my hat off to you. Over many years now I've spiradically come across your videos, the increase in quality over that time is inspirational. In my opinion this was better than most documentary episodes on mainstream media. Congratulations and thank you! You're a boss.

[Hiddensecret]

We see examples of this already in abandoned places—like ghost towns and Chernobyl—where nature is reclaiming its space. If humans were to vanish, it wouldn’t take long for forests, swamps, and wildlife to erase almost every trace we left behind.

[justa.american]

Your program has opened a whole new perspective to S. America and the Amazon. Absolutely fascinating report, and it opens a ton of questions.

[KingJojoB]

If you didn’t come from tiktok raise your hand 🤚🏽

[xelasomar]

If they built out of natural elements, mud, wood, etc., the Amazon would "eat" that up in months. Just a year later it would have completely decayed into the ground and the area covered in thick flora.

[justa.american]

Something my wife and I do is vertical gardening. We bought a vertical planter about 4 years ago, and it has produced more tomatos among other veggies than we can eat. So our family and friends are given what we can't eat. The watering, any minor weeding, etc. is easily managed. There is nothing tastier than your own homegrown veggies. Another aspect is that if you want it all to be organic, it's easier to do as a small group of plants. You can add grow lights and grow over the winter any plants suited for the season. We also grow herbs among other plants between annual flowers to ad even more variety. All this is done on very little square footage, especially the vertical planter.