A lot of this was also covered in *1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus *by Charles Mann
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22004.Charles_C_Mann> which sort of surveys all of the things scientists have discovered in the last 100 years or so about the native cultures of the Americas that for whatever reason hasn't made it into the education system yet. Turns out everything we were taught was pretty much fiction. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Nikolaj Nyholm <[email protected]> wrote: > There's recently a great book out, too by David Grann from the New Yorker > who follows the footsteps of Percy Fawcett, an early 20th century explorer: > http://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/0385513534 > > /n > > > On 26/04/2009, at 00.57, Anselm Hook wrote: > > Awesome video of terra preta soils via Ben Discoe - I've been very >> interested in the unusual geography of South America and this starts >> to put a few pieces together. >> >> - anselm >> >> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >> From: Ben Discoe <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:39 PM >> Subject: The Secret of El Dorado >> To: [email protected] >> >> Hi Andy, >> >> I thought this BBC documentary was unavailable, but it appeared >> recently on Google Video, have you seen it?: >> >> Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, “The Secret of El Dorado” >> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8993313723654914866 >> >> It connects from your mysterious Bolivian lines directly into biochar ... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- Dav Yaginuma http://AkuAku.org/
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