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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (179415)1/16/2012 10:20:45 AM
From: T L Comiskey  Respond to of 542262
 
"1491..."

by Charles Mann..

required reading..

As IF.....

His-tory mattered....

charlesmann.org



In the late 1990s ranchers stripped the forest in the Brazilian state of Acre, across the border from the Beni—only to find earthworks from a previously unknown society. This aerial photoby the archaeologist Martti Pärssinen, which dates from 2003, was the first to be widely disseminated;



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (179415)1/16/2012 1:16:06 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Respond to of 542262
 
Panama, too, apparently has had different civilizations.

news.nationalgeographic.com