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Take a hit of history and blast off on a journey through the Shocking lost civilization that continues to be discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Watch as Graham Hancock explains how the civilization survived in the notoriously difficult to cultivate rainforest land on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Script: In the 16th century there were cities of that size all over the Amazon huge numbers of them and a possible total population of the Amazon that exceeded 20 million people what yes 20 million this is the the latest evidence from the Amazon and then you ask yourself how did they do that how did they feed 20 million people in the Amazon because it's a fact rainforest soils are poor is one of the reasons these soya bean farms a really stupid idea because once you clear the rainforest the land is largely unfertile and you can't grow stuff on it for very long so how did they feed all these people the answer was they invented a soil and that soil has a name it's called Terra Preta archaeologists refer to it as Amazonian dark Earth's or Amazonian black earth it's a man-made soil it's thousands of years old it's full of microbes that are not found in adjoining soil it's based around biochar and you can take a handful of eight thousand year-old para prater and you can add it to barren soil and that soil will instantly become fertile it's highly sought-after in the Amazon and it explains how they fed these people there was science in the atmosphere how to create this well this is something that's not understood it's still not understood by soil experts to this day as to how that was done but it's one of many intriguing evidences pieces of evidence of much higher development in the Amazon that it has been given credit for and of a kind of science India Jamie's got an image of it up there so this is it Wow exactly and so was that done by burns did these controlled burns they did they one way that it was achieved was was to do wet burning of middens they would be they would be burned and smolder they wouldn't burn fiercely which just produces charcoal they would they would burn and smolder and and that but what is called biochar would result and that's part of the fertility of the soil but the mystery is the microbial content of this soil which is completely different from the microbes in neighboring soils and that's remains unexplained so did they what are the theories composting some sort of advanced compost is some sort of some sort of advanced composting but again what has not been explained is the mud is the microbial content of these soils so they're there first of all is an issue of how two things how large populations get fed in the Amazon and evidence that there was a culture in the Amazon that was capable of manipulating the environment in such a way that it could support large populations with the invention of Terra Preta secondly new evidence previously not recognised the Amazon is basically a garden the Amazon is a man-made rainforest there are certain trees like Brazil nut trees or the ice cream bean tree which are food crops which are very very valuable and they dominate the the tree regime in in the Amazon there was what referred to as hyper dominant species in other words people living in the Amazon over thousands of years selected certain trees which they then cultivated and grew so the whole thing is not simply a wild pristine rainforest it's a very ancient man-made environment and emerging from that man-made environment as well as evidence of large cities large populations and this mysterious dark earth are huge geometrical structures. #jre #history #ancient #ancienthistory #fact #civilization #amazon #amazonrainforest #exploration #southamerica #grahamhancock #joerogan #jreexperience #shorts #factshorts #story #crazy #crazyfacts #discovery #historychannel #weird #shocking #bizarre #jre #history #ancient #ancienthistory #fact #civilization #amazon #amazonrainforest #exploration #southamerica #factshorts #story #crazy #crazyfacts #discovery #historychannel |