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Explorers Find Ancient City in Remote Peru Jungle
Reuters ^ | 8/17/04 | Marco Aquino

Posted on 08/18/2004 7:43:43 PM PDT by burrian

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1 posted on 08/18/2004 7:43:44 PM PDT by burrian
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To: SunkenCiv; blam
According to early accounts by Spanish conquistadors who arrived in Peru in the early 1500s, the Chachapoyas were a fair-skinned warrior tribe famous for their tall stature.

GGG ping

2 posted on 08/18/2004 7:45:55 PM PDT by burrian
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An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas...

No, no, no -- that isn't right. Native Americans never fought or "conquered" each other. They frolicked in peace and harmony with their neighbors and the environment -- until the dastardly white man showed up. I learned that in school.

3 posted on 08/18/2004 7:48:25 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: burrian; blam

Blam, I think this is the same discovery I mentioned to you a couple days ago, but new info.


4 posted on 08/18/2004 7:51:35 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: 68skylark
frolicked

**snicker**

5 posted on 08/18/2004 7:51:36 PM PDT by GeronL (Viking Kitties have won the GOLD MEDAL in the 2,000 meter ZOTTING)
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To: burrian
According to early accounts by Spanish conquistadors who arrived in Peru in the early 1500s, the Chachapoyas were a fair-skinned warrior tribe famous for their tall stature.

Anyone remember Kontiki and Thor Heyerdahl's theory about white skinned people in the Americas?

6 posted on 08/18/2004 7:56:38 PM PDT by Odyssey-x
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To: burrian

what? no pictures??


7 posted on 08/18/2004 7:57:51 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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8 posted on 08/18/2004 8:04:26 PM PDT by burrian
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In 1971, my husband and I flew across the Peruvian jungle from Lima to Iquitos. We flew in a military plane because my husband's brother in law was in the Peruvian air force. We sat most of the time in the cockpit watching the full moon over the miles and miles of darkness.. once, we saw some firelight below. It went on for hours. We finally landed in Iquitos, the colonial rubber baron city, the Peruvian port on the Atlantic. The only way in was the river or the air... no roads. There's a lot of jungle down there and this is just in Peru.


9 posted on 08/18/2004 8:05:40 PM PDT by Mercat
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was it a lost city? with full on population?


10 posted on 08/18/2004 8:12:11 PM PDT by SQUIDMACK
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To: burrian
" the Chachapoyas were a fair-skinned warrior tribe famous for their tall stature. "

The most interesting part of the story.

Anyone care to speculate who they were? My bet is they were related to the Kennewick Man Folks (The Ainu/Polynesians)

11 posted on 08/18/2004 8:15:21 PM PDT by blam
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A student looks at the wall made of stones, part of an ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas, which has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, Chachapoyas. U.S. and Peruvian explorers uncovered the city, which may have been home to up to 10,000 people, after a month of trekking in Peru's northern rain forest and following up on years of investigation about a possible lost metropolis in the region. Photo by Andean Explorers Foundation/Reuters

Archeology students clean a wall made of stones, in this image made in August 2004, part of an ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas, which has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, Chachapoyas.

12 posted on 08/18/2004 8:19:32 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: blam

A Lost Tribe of Israel? ;)


13 posted on 08/18/2004 8:21:45 PM PDT by madison10
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To: burrian

B4L8r


14 posted on 08/18/2004 8:33:20 PM PDT by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: blam
Check out these sarcophagi I found from doing a google on "Chachapoyas."

You may be on to something with the Polynesian.

15 posted on 08/18/2004 8:36:54 PM PDT by burrian
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To: FairOpinion

Thank you Very Much!


16 posted on 08/18/2004 8:39:51 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: Clemenza; rmlew; PARodrig

ping


17 posted on 08/18/2004 8:54:16 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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Good pictures, thanks.

"You may be on to something with the Polynesian."

Refugees from Sundaland.

...or

Related to these folks in Florida who have DNA of western Europeans.

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)

18 posted on 08/18/2004 9:10:28 PM PDT by blam
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To: burrian
Shades of Easter Island...


19 posted on 08/18/2004 9:15:38 PM PDT by TXnMA
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"A Lost Tribe of Israel? ;)"

The date 700 AD would coincide with a people fleeing a fledgling islamic empire.
20 posted on 08/18/2004 9:21:19 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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