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Each settlement is connected across the wider landscape by further straight roads that also radiate out from the center of the villages. Furthermore, the complexity of this design matrix is multiplied ten-fold when we consider that some small groups of villages “exhibit regular distances.” So not only do their locations and alignments reflect cosmic principals, but they also adhere to carefully calculated measurements on the landscape, of “2.5–3 km [1.6–1.9 miles] and 5–6 km [3.1–3.7 miles] between sites,” according to the paper.
Putting this Cosmos in Context
Having now published their initial study, the researchers hope to unveil even more villages hidden beneath the veil of the rainforest, which according to the team were created by a culture that emerged sometime after 950 AD, “when a large geometrically patterned ceremonial earthwork was abandoned.” Out of context this discovery might seem unique, but from a continental perspective it’s really “