China's ancient water pipe networks

Re:China's ancient water pipe networks by vmfunction on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:03AM (#37431262)

>One of the biggest mistakes that people tend to make is looking at the current population and using it to fill in the gaps in the archaeological record.

That how the Europeans never found the Amazon lost cities, because earlier explorers were looking for cities like European cities.

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Re:China's ancient water pipe networks by jl6 on Friday September 08, 2023 @08:01AM (#37432425)

Which Amazon lost cities do you mean?

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Re:China's ancient water pipe networks by interactivecode on Friday September 08, 2023 @09:35AM (#37433305)

my city, the amazon driver for some reason can't find my house number and keeps dropping off the package at the post office.

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Re:China's ancient water pipe networks by t-3 on Friday September 08, 2023 @09:44AM (#37433398)

There have been many ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest discovered through satellite imaging/LIDAR/other techniques, but before those discoveries large settlements in the area were considered legends and myths.

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