Take a hit of history and blast off on a journey through the Shocking lost civilization that continues to be discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Watch as Graham Hancock explains how the civilization survived in the notoriously difficult to cultivate rainforest land on the Joe Rogan podcast.

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In the 16th century there were cities of
that size all over the Amazon huge
numbers of them and a possible total
population of the Amazon that exceeded
20 million people what yes 20 million
this is the the latest evidence from the
Amazon and then you ask yourself how did
they do that how did they feed 20
million people in the Amazon because
it's a fact rainforest soils are poor is
one of the reasons these soya bean farms
a really stupid idea because once you
clear the rainforest the land is largely
unfertile and you can't grow stuff on it
for very long so how did they feed all
these people the answer was they
invented a soil and that soil has a name
it's called Terra Preta archaeologists
refer to it as Amazonian dark Earth's or
Amazonian black earth it's a man-made
soil it's thousands of years old
it's full of microbes that are not found
in adjoining soil it's based around
biochar and you can take a handful of
eight thousand year-old para prater and
you can add it to barren soil and that
soil will instantly become fertile it's
highly sought-after in the Amazon and it
explains how they fed these people there
was science in the atmosphere how to
create this well this is something
that's not understood it's still not
understood by soil experts to this day
as to how that was done but it's one of
many intriguing evidences pieces of
evidence of much higher development in
the Amazon that it has been given credit
for and of a kind of science India
Jamie's got an image of it up there so
this is it Wow exactly and so was that
done by burns did these controlled burns
they did they one way that it was
achieved was was to do wet burning of
middens they would be they would be
burned and smolder they wouldn't burn
fiercely which just produces charcoal
they would they would burn and smolder
and and that but what is called biochar
would result and that's part of the
fertility of the soil but the mystery is
the microbial
content of this soil which is completely
different from the microbes in
neighboring soils and that's remains
unexplained so did they what are the
theories composting some sort of
advanced compost is some sort of some
sort of advanced composting but again
what has not been explained is the mud
is the microbial content of these soils
so they're there first of all is an
issue of how two things how large
populations get fed in the Amazon and
evidence that there was a culture in the
Amazon that was capable of manipulating
the environment in such a way that it
could support large populations with the
invention of Terra Preta secondly new
evidence previously not recognised the
Amazon is basically a garden the Amazon
is a man-made rainforest there are
certain trees like Brazil nut trees or
the ice cream bean tree which are food
crops which are very very valuable and
they dominate the the tree regime in in
the Amazon there was what referred to as
hyper dominant species in other words
people living in the Amazon over
thousands of years selected certain
trees which they then cultivated and
grew so the whole thing is not simply a
wild pristine rainforest it's a very
ancient man-made environment and
emerging from that man-made environment
as well as evidence of large cities
large populations and this mysterious
dark earth are huge geometrical
structures.

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