#1 - first part, Ratanabá: 'lost city in the Amazon' doesn't make sense

00:00 -#1 - first part, Ratanabá: 'lost city in the Amazon' doesn't make sense

00:10 - 1 - latest news:

In recent days, the alleged discovery of Ratanabá, a secret civilization in the heart of the Amazon, has spread with great speed through social networks.

00:21 - 2 - It will be a Delirium:

Some conspiracy theories went further and said the discovery would help explain “the true interest of dozens of powerful men in the Amazon” and even the disappearance of English journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira.

This information, however, does not make any sense. “All this is a delusion”, evaluates archaeologist Eduardo Goés Neves, professor at the Center for Amerindian Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP) and coordinator of the Laboratory of Archeology of the Tropics at the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at the same institution.

00:59 - 3 - Just rumors:

For over 30 years, the specialist has been part of a network of researchers working to reveal the past of the Amazon and the peoples who lived (and still live) there.

In his opinion, the emergence of stories such as that of Ratanabá, which has no basis in recent scientific publications, does a “disservice to archaeology”.

“For over 20 years, archaeologists working in the region have argued that there were cities in the Amazon, but this was seen as crazy,” he says.

“Over time, the perspective has changed and the academic community has begun to accept that, yes, there is evidence of large-scale sites, roads and landfills built a long time ago”, continues the expert, who reinforces that these findings do not have nothing to do with ancient civilizations or hidden treasures.

“Now, all our efforts can almost go back to square one with the story of Ratanabá and the propagation of information in the most bizarre ways possible”, he adds.

Next, check out why the main arguments used to talk about the “lost city in the Amazon” don’t make sense — and what scientific evidence reveals about human occupation in the world’s largest rainforest.

02:10 - 4 - An account that doesn’t close:

The first detail that draws attention in the posts about Ratanabá are the dates used. In some texts, it is written that civilization would have existed there 350, 450 or even 600 million years ago.

“This doesn’t make any sense from the point of view of the geological and biological history of our planet”, replies Neves.

“To give you an idea, not even dinosaurs existed 350 million years ago. Our oldest ancestors lived about 6 million years ago. But our species itself, the Homo sapiens sapiensappeared 350 thousand years ago in Africa”, he estimates.

That is: there is a miscalculation of at least 349 million years in this history.

“If someone said that cities existed in the Amazon 3,500 years ago, I would even think that this was a question to try to understand better and research. Now, a civilization 350 million years ago? There is no possibility of that”, points out the archaeologist.

03:18 - 5 - Metropolises of the past, small towns of today:

The second completely wrong information about Ratanabá has to do with the supposed size of the city. Some posts say that it would be bigger than Greater São Paulo.

Again, this is at odds with the scientific evidence. “We still don’t have an exact estimate of how many people lived in these Amazonian cities, but they certainly weren’t the size of São Paulo at all,” says Neves.

“To give you an idea, in the 16th century, the most populous cities in the world were probably Istanbul, in Turkey, and Tenochtitlán, in Mexico. And they had 50,000, at most 200,000 inhabitants”, calculates the USP professor.

Currently, Greater São Paulo is home to about 22 million inhabitants.

Neves calculates that, before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, there were about 10 million indigenous people in the entire Amazon. “And that number dropped a lot from the 17th century onwards due to wars and epidemics”, he teaches.

04:23 - 6 - Straight lines in the middle of the jungle:

The third argument that gives muscle to the rumors about Ratanabá has to do with tunnels found in the Amazon region or with aerial images, which show straight lines and perfect squares, visible between the treetops.

These tunnels, social media posts argue, would serve as a secret passageway and connect different parts of South America.

Straight lines, in turn, do not exist in nature and would be the result of human work, guarantee the rumors.

Neves explains that there really are tunnels in the Amazon. “The images released probably come from the region of Forte Príncipe da Beira, in Rondônia, which was a Portuguese colonial post.”

“These constructions are related to the border disputes between Spain and Portugal in the vicinity of the Guaporé River throughout the 18th century”, he adds.

But what about straight lines? From the few images available, Neves believes they are from a region close to the border between the states of Mato Grosso, Pará and Amazonas.

“These formations have been known for a long time and they really look like perpendicular lines, which is an unusual thing,” he says.

“The main suspicions are that it is a natural formation of limestone or some type of rock that follows this pattern”, says the archaeologist.

“It is unlikely that it was created by humans. But, if it really was made by local people, these constructions must not be more than 2,500 years old”, he adds.

to be continued....

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