Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

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Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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The city was built 2,500 years ago but may have been abandoned after a volcanic eruption.

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That’s just not true, Roman ruin cities were/are being excavated in many places
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  But those are not fully preserved, they have been built over and/or flattened by people

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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