2004-06-13
ARCHEOLOGY || ANCIENT CULTURES || TECHNOLOGY
The Archeologist is a finds | No it isn't the X-Files telling you about ET coming to a terraced plateau in the Amazon jungle | But Clark Erickson is no typical archaeologist, and that's who has been making large strides in his fieldwork about the cultures that were there long before Columbus and Pizzaro came to claim the western hemisphere for the Pope and other 15th and 16th Century EuroTrash |
Using tools perhaps unfamiliar to fellow earth diggers, Erickson analyzes aerial photo maps for signs of habitation | The results, combined with actual on-site fieldwork has him coming to unusual conclusions about the Amazon Basin | Namely, he has come to believe that much of the Bolivian Amazon basin was terraformed two as long ago as 100 BC and cultivated to maybe 1100 A.D. | Would put a crimp in the Euro theories about noble savages and the like |
Me, I don't know what to think about this, though I have long believed it's modern man's increidble egotism [and lack of long range thinkng] that has us trained to first believe that the 20th and 21st centuries are the only times in human history that have engaged in complex technological feats |
Leaving aside the popular (and uncertain scientic methods of Eric von Daniken) this is in synch with the thoughts of others as well | Online, the folks at the Daily Grail spend much time theorizing on this very premise | A recent edition of New Scientist looks at jewelery made in 6th century China, noting they were made in a manner that required complex tooling machinery | Maybe the insturments were not powered by petrol products, but there certainly could have been technologically sophisticated machines much earlier than that to which we are now accustomed |
Ancient engineers could very well have built for humankind many such treasures, only to be lost because of the failure of foresight by the leaders of past ages [how little we have changed, eh?] | This said, I'm culling what I can from the internet, just so I can show it to my Shaman friend, Gerry Miller, who facilitates Tours through the Amazon to get his thoughts on the subject | ¶ 00:31
pix credit: University of Pennsylvania News
The Archeologist is a finds | No it isn't the X-Files telling you about ET coming to a terraced plateau in the Amazon jungle | But Clark Erickson is no typical archaeologist, and that's who has been making large strides in his fieldwork about the cultures that were there long before Columbus and Pizzaro came to claim the western hemisphere for the Pope and other 15th and 16th Century EuroTrash |
Using tools perhaps unfamiliar to fellow earth diggers, Erickson analyzes aerial photo maps for signs of habitation | The results, combined with actual on-site fieldwork has him coming to unusual conclusions about the Amazon Basin | Namely, he has come to believe that much of the Bolivian Amazon basin was terraformed two as long ago as 100 BC and cultivated to maybe 1100 A.D. | Would put a crimp in the Euro theories about noble savages and the like |
Me, I don't know what to think about this, though I have long believed it's modern man's increidble egotism [and lack of long range thinkng] that has us trained to first believe that the 20th and 21st centuries are the only times in human history that have engaged in complex technological feats |
Leaving aside the popular (and uncertain scientic methods of Eric von Daniken) this is in synch with the thoughts of others as well | Online, the folks at the Daily Grail spend much time theorizing on this very premise | A recent edition of New Scientist looks at jewelery made in 6th century China, noting they were made in a manner that required complex tooling machinery | Maybe the insturments were not powered by petrol products, but there certainly could have been technologically sophisticated machines much earlier than that to which we are now accustomed |
Ancient engineers could very well have built for humankind many such treasures, only to be lost because of the failure of foresight by the leaders of past ages [how little we have changed, eh?] | This said, I'm culling what I can from the internet, just so I can show it to my Shaman friend, Gerry Miller, who facilitates Tours through the Amazon to get his thoughts on the subject | ¶ 00:31
