'Brazilian Stonehenge' discovered

It looks like that's where the drive-thru window used to be, to me....:)

21 posted on 05/13/2006 8:52:14 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed With Second Sight)

To: Jedi Master Pikachu

22 posted on 05/13/2006 9:09:42 PM PDT by leadpenny

My thought was the "C" stone looked Easter Islandish.

23 posted on 05/14/2006 4:21:14 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)

It looks like they were starting to carve out a figure of a sitting human with some kind of elongated (equine? bird?) face . . .

. . . and for some reason stopped.

24 posted on 05/14/2006 9:35:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)

"It was traditionally thought that before European colonisation, the Amazon had no advanced societies."

Someday 'academia' is going to have to open its collective mind to the evidence of the world straddling 'antediluvian' civilization.

25 posted on 05/14/2006 9:37:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)

In vietman I think they called them "slopes"

26 posted on 05/14/2006 10:17:13 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)

It looks like they were starting to carve out a figure of a sitting human with some kind of elongated (equine? bird?) face . . . . . . and for some reason stopped.....

Probably the UFO's flew in and captured all the stone cutters!

27 posted on 05/14/2006 10:22:28 AM PDT by aShepard ((Maybe, with enough cash, he can get a doctor to de-puss that growth between his eyes!))

28 posted on 05/14/2006 12:32:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)

WOW!
That is way too heavy for a good son-in-law, with a gin and tonic in his hand, to comprehend on Mother's Day!

Cheers!

29 posted on 05/14/2006 2:54:22 PM PDT by aShepard ((Maybe, with enough cash, he can get a doctor to de-puss that growth between his eyes!))

Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon
(Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)
Penn Arts And Science | 5-30-2004 | Ted Mann
Posted on 05/30/2004 8:31:44 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144921/posts

Amazonian find stuns researchers
The Seattle Times | 9-20-03 | By Thomas H. Maugh II
Posted on 09/20/2003 9:15:45 PM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986400/posts

Explorer: Legendary El Dorado Pinpointed
Discovery News | August 12, 2002 | By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
Posted on 08/12/2002 7:27:35 PM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/732016/posts

Lost Inca city "El Dorado" discovered in Peruvian Amazon!
Northern Light | Story Filed: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:02 PM EST
By David Blanco Bonilla. http://www.efe.es
Posted on 07/28/2002 7:05:10 PM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723732/posts

Human settlements far older than suspected discovered in South America.
DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002) | (May 2002) | By John Dorfman
Posted on 04/21/2002 8:41:59 PM EDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/670296/posts

Going Into The Water: A Survey Of Impact Events
And The Coastal Peoples Of South-East North America
Cambridge Conference Network | 1-09-2002
Posted on 01/17/2002 7:08:32 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/610489/posts

Amazon related:

Researchers discover trees in Amazon much older than assumed
(Not as helpful with global warming)
Today@UCI | December 8, 2005 | Staff
Posted on 12/13/2005 1:56:43 PM EST by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539676/posts

Rain Forest Myth Goes Up in Smoke Over the Amazon
LA Times | Henry Chu
Posted on 06/08/2005 7:11:04 PM EDT by Coleus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419117/posts

Vines Spread, Choke Trees in Deepest Amazon Jungle
Reuters | Wed Aug 14, 2:04 PM ET | Peter Graff
Posted on 08/14/2002 6:47:33 PM EDT by anymouse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/733267/posts

Surprise: Rainforest Grows When It's Dry
LiveScience.com | 3/21/06
Posted on 03/21/2006 11:58:00 AM EST by anymouse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600375/posts

30 posted on 05/14/2006 4:32:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

It doesn't look all that sophisticated...perhaps it's just the crash site of one of their stone aeroplanes.

31 posted on 05/14/2006 4:35:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)

Interesting posts, thank you!

32 posted on 05/14/2006 6:04:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)

:') Sorry for the length.

33 posted on 05/14/2006 6:16:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

the first one:

2 men discover what may be hemisphere's oldest seasonal calendar
Orange County Register via Duluth News Tribune | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | Tom Berg
Posted on 05/02/2006 12:15:49 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1625347/posts

34 posted on 05/21/2006 6:44:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

oops, my mistake, this is the first:

Professor shares Andean discovery, a 4,000-year-old temple
Columbia Missourian | April 25, 2006 | Ryan B. Schreiber
Posted on 04/26/2006 11:44:19 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1622258/posts

35 posted on 05/21/2006 6:52:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

36 posted on 01/15/2011 7:45:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)

To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Colonel Fawcett tried to tell them...

37 posted on 01/15/2011 7:48:06 PM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)

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