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The article says "starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres". From a quick google, ancient most commonly i
by yesenadam 4y ago
The article says "starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres". From a quick google, ancient most commonly is defined to mean, until about 500AD or before the fall of Rome (476).
But that's in a European history context. It seems that ancient in the context of the Americas is usually applied to anything pre-1492.
- stakkur 4y agoUnderneath all this is a recent phenomenon to recast Central/South American civilizations as 'ancient' and 'comparable' to other non-American civilizations. A lot of this is normal, on the level kind of research, but there's a significant amount of breathless hyperbole about it too. You can usually identify the latter by the language it uses. This article does a lot of that ("Mind blowing!" "Challenges archeaological dogma!" "Mysterious"!), and it repeats something that's very suspect, even amongst conservative historians--it dates civilization in the area to "10,000 years old". Also, much of what's in these kinds of articles is not new, but simply repackaged content.
- yesenadam 4y agoMaybe I was too obscure or something - there's no sign in your reply that you heard my point: that, contrary to what you said, it seems 500AD is "‘ancient’, at least by common definitions of what ancient means."
- stakkur 4y agoMaybe you thought I was trying to respond to your point, instead of adding more information of my own.