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Lost City Discovered In Honduran Rain Forest
jones_supa writes: An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with the discovery of a previously unknown culture's lost city. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied "White City," also referred to in legend as the "City of the Monkey God." Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished. The team also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned. The objects were documented but left unexcavated. To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed.
White City
Nonsense, its clearly black and blue.
Or someone very closely related to them? You know, the group in that area that formed a thriving civilization that supposedly fell apart during a drought...RIGHT AT THAT TIME?
Those unknown people?
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I'm sick and tired of these overly dramatic headlines Slashdot keeps throwing at us. The city was never "lost". It was misplaced.
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is this the city that turns into a ufo?
or the one with the giant rolling stone trap?
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It was not a thick jungle at the time. Clear cutting, burning, and flattening of terrain was done just as we do today.
Why is everyone so laid back about these archaeologists?
We need to urgently send a rescue team.
To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed.
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But I am an archaeologist and I work in Honduras. The region they're in (and although they're "keeping it a secret" they've previously released satellite photos with the area circled on it so we know what river they're on, and where from the contours of the river course) is not the deep dark jungle. By their own reporting the site is endangered by "nearby deforesting". That means there are people nearby who can get timber out to market. Furthermore, there's previous archaeological work in the same area done by Chris Begley so we already knew that there were large cities along these rivers and that they had ball courts. Nothing they've found is a surprise to archaeologists familiar with the history of investigation in Honduras. They are choosing to ignore that history. Since we don't have precise coordinates we can't be sure, but it would not surprise us to find out the site they visited was one Chris visited and mapped in the 1980s in his dissertation. This region today is occupied by Miskito and Pech speakers, whose ancestors have lived in the region for at least the last 5000 years, and Spanish speakers who have only been in the region since the 19th century.
If you draw a line from Honduras through the rumored location of Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and then through the Congo where the lost city of Zinj is, it points directly to northern Australia, so there has to be another lost city there. Get your machetes out Australians and start looking!
That's not a pyramid, it's just a vegetation encrusted natural phenomenon like the "pyramids" in Bosnia. Why is every orthogonal formation with four sides aligned with the cardinal points and a platform on top supposed to be a pyramid? Damned New Agers. ;-)
There is a theory that the jungle only exists today because of the cultivation of plants and leaving of waste by humans in the area previously. They say that the building up of human and livestock waste is what made it so fertile. I have also read that they had a different concept of farming than western civilization. They farmed with many different crops planted together, so that say one that gave back more nitrogen into the soil could fertilize other plants.
It is posited that this is why the jungle is so thick in parts of south america. It was somewhat engineered that way by man.
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Or someone very closely related to them? You know, the group in that area that formed a thriving civilization that supposedly fell apart during a drought...RIGHT AT THAT TIME?
Those unknown people?
Mayans were only one of the many people living in the area. There were/are Pech in the East (linguistically affiliated with Macro-Chibchan), the powerful Lenca in the north west (also Macro-Chibchan) living where the Mayan once were, Tolupan/Xicaque (language isolate), Pipil (Uto-Aztecan), Ulwa, Tawahka, Mayagna, and Matagalpa (Misumalpan), etc.
That is, Mayan are just the best known culture in Honduras. They weren't even the predominant culture anymore by the time of the Spanish conquest of Honduras. I've been hearing the rumors of the "White City" since the late 80's, and we keep finding archeological stuff in Honduras and Nicaragua which are really hard to categorize as cultures go.
The location of it, in the Mosquitia region, far to the east, is waaaay too far away from the Honduran Mayan homelands. The culture from this site are almost certainty neither Mayan nor Lenca. I doubt they are Tolupan because the proposed Tolupan homeland is to the north of Honduras.
By the geographic location of it, the culture was either Proto-Pech or Misumalpan (or even a culture long gone with no linguistic/ethnic survivors).
I'm sure it's true to a point, but considering the fauna that has lived there long before humans came along, I'd say the jungle predates human activity by a very long period of time.
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