Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' complex
The remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadorean cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed.
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The remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadorean cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed.
Shielded by the jungle for hundreds of years, the remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadoran cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed, researchers say.According to researchers who have studied the city network since the 1980s, the Upano people who built it had the political, economic, and religious organization typical of great civilizations.
Shielded by the jungle for hundreds of years, the remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadoran cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed, researchers say.
Roads and erosion are endangering newly discovered mound structures that are part of a sprawling, 2,500-year old Amazon civilization in Ecuador.
Deep within Ecuador's Amazon lies an unnamed, pre-Hispanic city, a significant archaeological find that suggests a developed society existed 2,500 years ago, challenging historical perceptions of the region.