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This is the Amazon rainforest.
It's breathtaking.
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So many people think of the Amazon
as this vast, natural oasis.
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Truly wild, unchanged forever...
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...dotted with a few isolated tribes.
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But it's a complete myth.
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See, a monumental mystery is
unfolding out here,
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with new evidence of vast societies
that thrived along these banks
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and stretched right across the
continent,
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where now, there's nothing but dense
rainforest.
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I want to get to the bottom of this
mystery
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and find out for myself the real
history of the Amazon.
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I'm Ella al-Shamahi.
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I'm an explorer and archaeologist in
some of the world's
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most dangerous and remote regions.
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I'll be travelling through the
Amazon's conflict zones...
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GUNFIRE
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LOUD BANG
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...in search of a lost ancient world.
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There's hand prints.
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There's actual hand prints.
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I'll be seeing how new technology is
looking beneath the jungle,
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uncovering vast, hidden settlements
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and revealing the remains of entire
civilisations
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of millions of people.
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It's going to raise a whole pile of
questions.
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Who were these people and when did
they live here?
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Where did they come from?
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And perhaps most important of all,
what on Earth happened to them?
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I'm going on an incredible adventure
to solve a massive mystery.
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When most of us think about ancient
civilisations in the Americas,
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we think of the mighty mountain
citadels of the Inca...
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...and the great pyramids of the
Maya.
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But here in the Amazon,
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there are no signs of ancient
civilisation at all.
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Just a vast, empty wilderness,
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lightly populated by scattered
indigenous groups.
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But could we have got it all wrong?
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An extraordinary account by a
European explorer,
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almost 500 years ago,
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paints a dramatically different
picture.
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One of the first Europeans to ever
travel along the Amazon
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was a missionary called Gaspar de
Carvajal.
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He actually wrote about it in
his diary in the 16th century
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and he talks about "gleaming vast
cities
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"on the river banks."
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And he describes inhabited areas
that were 440 kilometres long.
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It took them two clays and two nights
to pass through it.
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Back in 1542...
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...Carvajal described a
highly developed civilisation.
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One to rival the famous cities of
the Inca.
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But successive generations of
explorers
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found pretty much what we see today.
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Endless, impenetrable jungle.
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So, the Spanish priest was
forgotten.
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His diary ridiculed.
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But now, new archaeological evidence
is suggesting
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he may have been
telling the truth after all.
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My investigation will take me right
across the Amazon,
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the world's largest rainforest,
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so huge, it spans eight countries.
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I'm starting off in a region of
western Brazil called Acre.
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Here, huge areas of the forest have
been cleared
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and turned into farmland.
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It's just tragic.
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But it's also revealing something
amazing.
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Allowing archaeologists like Jose
lriarte
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to discover the Amazon's
ancient secrets.
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Hello, how are you? Hey, how's it
going?
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Watch out, it's super steep.
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Deforestation has recently revealed
these mind-blowing,
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man-made geoglyphs-
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Huge, mysterious geometric
patterns...
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...carved into the landscape.
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This is one of the most distinct and
mysterious geoglyphs
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in the whole region.
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We've all seen crop circles. Yeah.
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But this is something like a
pre-historic crop circle...
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...in the Amazon.
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This isn't supposed to exist and
yet, it does.
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It is a bit mad, isn't it?
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Thought to date from as long as 2,000
years ago,
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centuries before Europeans arrived
in the Amazon,
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their sheer scale means they surely
could only have been built
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by a highly organised society.
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These are ritual, ceremonial
structures.
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If we go back in time and we think
of the technology
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that the geoglyph builders have,
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it would take 100 people a month to
take out the dirt
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to build one of these structures.
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So, we're talking about a society
that was very complex.
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To be able to plan, to build and to
maintain these structures.
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Discovering these structures is a
game changer.
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The people who built them weren't
small groups of hunter-gatherers,
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but part of a much more complex
society than experts ever imagined.
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Once completely hidden, they now
seem to be everywhere.
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So far, more than 500 structures
have emerged
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in this part of the Amazon alone...
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...across an area almost the size of
Scotland.
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It's so completely unexpected.
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I think so many of us have got the
notion of the people
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that lived in the Amazon
and it wasn't societies like this.
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This isn't a simple society.
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These geoglyphs indicate a really
complex society.
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These discoveries are starting a
revolution
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in Amazonian archaeology.
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OK, what...what are we looking
at here?
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So, this is our area of
archaeological interest.
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Today, cutting-edge laser technology
called Lidar
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is helping scientists to discover
what's hidden beneath the tress,
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without destroying the rainforest.
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Look at all this area covered with
trees.
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But when we remove the canopy...
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...kaboom.
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The scan reveals structures that
have never been seen before...
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...including one that Jose is
particularly intrigued by.
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As you can see, we've found a new
site
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that was completely unknown to
archaeology.
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Oh, wow.
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I mean, that's amazing.
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What's revealed looks like a precise
circle of mounds
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with a straight road leading to it.
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It's incredible.
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That is completely hidden under the
trees.
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Jose believes this could be an
ancient settlement.
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But there's only one way to find out
for sure.
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Tomorrow, we're going to do an
expedition to go through the forest
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to find this site and see how it
looks.
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Oh, this is gonna be brilliant.
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It's morning and a short,
sweltering hike
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takes us to the edge of the forest.
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Ugh!
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It's going to be dense, difficult
terrain,
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so we need a local guide.
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Hey. Ella.
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So, what's your assessment of the
forest behind us?
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Like, how brutal is it, really?
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I feel like I'm about to go to my
death in there.
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I've done most of my archaeology in
unstable and hostile territories,
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like Yemen and Iraq,
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but this jungle is a whole different
challenge.
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Here is the worst kind of forest.
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This is the thing we need to watch
for.
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The palm spines. You see?
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Once it enters your body, it won't
come out.
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Are you being serious? Yeah. It will
come out in two, three months, so...
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Please be very careful with these
spines.
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The going is painfully slow,
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and it's taking much longer than
Jose expected.
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We still have a while to go
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and, er, I'm a bit worried
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because you can see how dense it is
to get there.
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I don't know if we are going to be
able to see anything.
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Oh, my God, the ants are everywhere.
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We just did half of it.
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We need to do the other half.
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Come on, we can do this.
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We can't stay in the forest after
dark,
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because at night, the jungle gets
really dangerous.
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Ow, shit.
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Ai-ai-ai.
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Then suddenly, Jose spots something.
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Do you think this could be
something, Ella?
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I think, er, we may have found
something.
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Could it be the entrance to the
ancient village?
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This could be the causeway. W00!
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In there.
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We've been hacking through dense
forest for most of the day...
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...in search of what could be
an ancient Amazonian settlement.
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Wait, Neguinho. Wait.
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Then suddenly, deep in the forest...
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Look at that! Look at that.
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This is much lower down.
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If you take a look,
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this looks like a ridge.
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Steps down here
and steps down to the other side.
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Neguinho is 1.6 metres,
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so we are talking that this man is
minimum two metres and a half.
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So this might be the entrance
to the village?
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This is likely to be the entrance of
the village. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yes!
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As an archaeologist,
these are the moments
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that are really special, you know?
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This is our newly-discovered site.
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I wanna hug you. Sorry.
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Jose's, like, doing this
in the background.
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This...this is just blowing my mind
right now,
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because this
is real archaeological discovery.
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No archaeologist has stepped
here before. Not at all.
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Revealed by laser scans,
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Jose begins the first ever survey
of the new site,
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piecing together a picture of
an ancient settlement.
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And this ground-truthing
gives strong evidence
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that other newly-revealed structures
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are also man-made.
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It's archaeology like this that's
retelling the history of the Amazon.
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There were people who were living
here hundreds of years ago
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and it's so bloody awesome... Yeah.
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...that we're standing
at the beginning of the village.
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But I am actually standing
on an ant hill
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and they are biting me really badly,
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so I think we should move.
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It's five o'clock.
We need to get out. Vamonos!
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We can now bring this village
to life.
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Over 500 years ago,
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20 or more houses would have been
built on raised platforms,
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forming a circle more than
150 metres across.
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There was a sunken road leading into
a large central plaza...
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...where a community of up to 200
people would have gathered.
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And the lidar scans show this
settlement wasn't alone.
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The road leads to another
village nearby,
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the first of over 50
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that formed a vast extended network,
mostly hidden until now.
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It's powerful evidence that ancient
Amazonians
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built permanent, organised
societies.
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And it's just the start
of the revolution
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that's changing our understanding
of the Amazon.
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Back in 1542,
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the Spanish missionary
Gaspar de Carvajal
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described even more
sophisticated societies...
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...with huge cities and lords adorned
with elaborate jewellery.
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Now, I'm heading to Bolivia
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in search of those gleaming cities.
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0h!
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My introduction to Bolivia's
a bit bumpy.
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I've already seen how
ground-breaking lidar
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can unlock the secrets
of the Amazon.
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I've come to find out how
it actually works
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and what more secrets it can reveal.
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Hi!
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Good morning.
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Ella, nice to meet you guys. Mark.
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How do you do, Ella? Hi, Mark.
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Heiko. Heiko, nice to meet you. Hi.
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British archaeologist Mark Robinson
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and a team
from three archaeological institutes
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are lidar pioneers in the Amazon.
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Could you just explain to me what
Hdaris?
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Yeah, lidar is a laser scanner.
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It's a 3D laser scanner.
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And here we have a rotating mirror
through the glass. Mm-hm.
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And the idea is that you shoot a lot
of laser pulses at the ground.
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So, lasers will shoot out, hit the
mirror and the mirror's rotating,
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so it can basically get
the full spread
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and it can create an incredibly
detailed three-dimensional map
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of the terrain.
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ENGINE REVS
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Yeah, you definitely get
the motion sickness on the turns.
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Leaping backwards
and forwards like this
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can be queasy work.
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Yeah, you need a strong stomach.
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The area we are scanning
is mostly open floodplains...
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...dotted with patches of forest.
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It's incredible!
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It is really surprising to me
that this is the Amazon,
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cos I wouldn't expect
a massive floodplain.
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Yeah, the diversity of the Amazon
basin is just mind-boggling.
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For humans, these are perfect
locations to exist.
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You get the best of both worlds.
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You get all the resources
of a savannah environment
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as well as the benefits
of a full forest.
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Our main focus is an unusual mound
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rising out of the otherwise
flat landscape.
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Coming up on the right,
on the right side of the helicopter,
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we're gonna come up on
La Punta mound,
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with a nice little white house
on top.
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Mark believes the mound is the relic
of an ancient settlement,
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possibly built more
than 2,000 years ago.
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Now he's in search of any signs
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that it might have been part
of something bigger.
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When we were on the ground,
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you could see that there were
clusters of trees nearby,
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but it was actually being up in the
sky you could suddenly start seeing
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the other mounds that are really
close by
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in really close proximity, like
neighbours to the La Punta mound.
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And suddenly you're thinking,
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"All right, what's going on there?"
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All right, so if we look at the map
here, it's our current position.
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YOU can see 6S we PFOQFBSS,
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we're collecting new data that's
coming out as we pass over.
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Amazingly, lidar is working
its magic again.
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The scans reveal more man-made
mounds nearby,
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many hidden beneath the trees.
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And the mounds
are all different sizes,
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with some much more impressive
than others.
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For Mark, that's curious,
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as it could be evidence
of social hierarchy,
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a crucial stage towards
large-scale societies.
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The La Punta mound appears
to be the epicentre
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of something much bigger
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and it might hold clues to the great
civilisations I'm searching for.
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I'm going there with archaeologist
Carla Betancourt,
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who recently began excavating
the mound.
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On our way, I can't resist
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taking a closer look at some
of the wildlife.
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Can you see them?
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Do you see the teeth on it?
Look at that!
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CARLA: So, welcome to La Punta.
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It looks beautiful.
Yeah, it's a beautiful landscape.
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Already, in the first year
of excavation,
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Carla's uncovered a whole history
of human occupation at La Punta.
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This is amazing.
Yeah, the stratigraphy is wonderful.
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You can see this black layer.
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That is the earliest layer... Oh!
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...from when they started
to build this mound.
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Cos we are talking about maybe
1,000 years.
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Are you kidding? That's wonderful!
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The layers of soil contain signs
of the people who lived here
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at different points
in Amazonian history.
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Their pottery, their rubbish,
even their bones.
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So, that is a snapshot
of 1,000 years. Yes.
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How doesn't that give
you goose bumps?
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Like, seriously, how does that not
give you goose bumps?
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But it's the human remains
discovered by Carla
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that are giving us a window
into ancient Amazonian society.
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The unearthed skeleton of a man
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buried with elaborate copper
earrings
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is a sure sign of status.
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So, I think this man was
an important man in this society.
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Yeah, maybe a political character
or something
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and that is the reasons that
we are thinking that there was
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a society organised,
also with hierarchies.
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It seems privileged people
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were living on the larger,
more impressive mounds.
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The lower classes left
with the lower mounds.
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It all fits with a complex
class-based society.
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Maybe there is something like
a competition
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between these different groups
of people
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and they are building this mound
higher and higher.
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One bigger than the other.
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So, I think it is a sign of status
or competition.
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So, that's interesting, cos we know
this in anthropology
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that people do compete with higher
and higher buildings.
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Even today, we know
that people do this.
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People build a tower
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and then somebody else tries
to build a higher tower.
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You get the idea. So, it's kind of
blown my mind to think people
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would be doing it with mounds,
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cos you're keeping up
with the Jones',
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you're trying to compete.
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I'm already building a picture
of societies
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more complex than experts
ever imagined.
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But the Spanish priest 500 years ago
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talked of an even more
advanced society,
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of cities ruled by powerful lords.
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800 miles east, in Brazil,
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I'm hoping one indigenous community
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can unlock that great ancient secret
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and perhaps the mystery of what
happened
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to those lost civilisations.
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Back in Brazil, I'm still
investigating
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the extraordinary diary of Spanish
missionary, Gaspar De Carvajal.
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In 1542, he was aboard one of
the first
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European explorations of the Amazon.
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His account describes vast,
sprawling settlements,
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all along the river bank.
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And he talks about one
settlement being so large
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that it stretched for five leagues,
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that's about 27.5km,
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without there intervening any space
from house to house,
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which was a marvellous thing to
behold.
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But when Europeans returned to
the Amazon, years later,
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all they found was forest.
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And Carvajal's account of great
Amazonian civilisations was dismissed.
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Today, new approaches to archaeology
are completely overturning
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our understanding of the Amazon's
history.
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It's shocking, but for years,
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we've ignored one critical piece
of the puzzle.
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But finally, indigenous peoples'
own accounts
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of their ancient history are
leading the way.
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The Kuikuro people live in the
upper Xingu region of Brazil.
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Today, there are just 500 of them.
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WHOOPING
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But they believe they're descendants
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of a once-vast, ancient
civilisation.
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And Chief Afukaka is proud of
that heritage.
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American anthropologist Michael
Heckenberger
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works closely with the Kuikuro.
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They've led him to a remote part
of the forest,
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where they say there are clues to
their ancient past.
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The site is surrounded by a
massive, mysterious ditch.
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When we'd mapped the extent of
this ditch
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around the archaeological site,
it goes for over 2km.
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That ditch enclosed an area of 50
hectares,
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which is 20-times as large as the
contemporary village.
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So this was a massive earthen
structure
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that was built by a population
that could mobilise labour
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on a much larger scale and obviously
supported a much larger population.
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Michael believes the ancient
Kuikuro built the ditch
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as a defensive fortification, around
800 years ago.
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Compared with today's village, the
ancient settlement was huge.
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But in other ways, it was
incredibly similar.
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So Michael can use the layout
of today's village
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to guide him around the
archaeological site.
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Starting, oddly, with the trash
mounds
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that families always build behind
their houses.
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What we set about looking for
first was the trash mounds.
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We assumed that, between the
plaza and these trash mounds,
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we would find the remains of
ancient houses.
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So we opened up this area,
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looking for the remains of
that actual house.
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We came across, suddenly, a
pot support,
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it's a very distinctive ceramic
artefact.
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It's what they used to hold up
their cooking pots.
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This is an important breakthrough,
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because the Kuikuro use very similar
supports to help them cook today.
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As soon as the Kuikuru saw
that pot support,
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they immediately knew what
we were looking at.
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They said, "This is the kitchen.
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"The front door is going to be
right there.
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"The sleeping areas are going to be
right there."
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And sure enough, as we expanded
our excavations,
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we found remnants of the front door.
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We found remnants of the sleeping
area.
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This ancient community was built on
the same principles
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as the contemporary community.
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And these revelations are only the
beginning.
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GRUNTING
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Investigating the surrounding area
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has revealed that this settlement
was not alone,
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but part of an entire, ancient,
urban network.
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What really took me by surprise
is how integrated they were.
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They were all connected by roads,
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and not just small paths through
the tropical forest,
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these were wide and
well-constructed roads with kerbs.
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Michael estimates this
ancient, interconnected metropolis
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was home to around 50,000 people,
in just this area alone.
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Much bigger than anything
else we've seen.
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It confirms what today's Kuikuro
people have always believed.
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Why not civilisations in the Amazon?
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The pre-Columbian societies
of the Amazon,
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these were not that different from
some of the classic civilisations
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we look to in antiquity.
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The evidence is now really
stacking up
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that ancient Amazon
societies not only existed,
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but did so on a scale and complexity
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that, compared to today, is
staggering.
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Experts now believe as many as
10 million people
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lived across the whole
of the Amazon.
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It looks like the ridiculed Spanish
missionary, Gaspar De Carvajal,
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may well have been telling the
truth, after all.
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But that raises another, huge
question.
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Where on earth did all those people
go?
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The truth is simple and tragic.
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The early Europeans, possibly
including Gaspar De Carvajal himself,
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brought diseases that spread
like wildfire
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through the people of the Amazon.
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It decimated those populations very
quickly.
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They had never had experience
with these Old World diseases.
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And once they hit, they
would ravage entire villages
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and quickly move from village to
village,
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precisely because these
populations were interlinked
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in very complex trade networks.
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In some places, the lack of immunity
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meant up to 90% of
Amazonians perished
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from influenza and smallpox.
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Across the Americas, millions died
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in one of the biggest demographic
catastrophes in human history.
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BELLS JANGLE
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Some escaped death and enslavement
by fleeing their cities.
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But unlike the stone relics of
other great civilisations,
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their wooden cities rotted and
disappeared beneath the forest.
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Over the centuries, repeated
contact with the outside world
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has often spelt disaster.
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Even in living memory.
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Five centuries ago,
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this area was populated by as
many as 50,000 people.
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Now there are only around 500.
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Just 1% of a once-great metropolis.
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And today, across the Amazon,
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its people are still fighting for
their survival.
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Right now, the Brazilian rainforest
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is being cleared at a
terrifying rate...
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BOLSANARO SPEAKS PORTUGUESE
..as President Bolsanaro's government
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ruthlessly pursues economic growth.
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In the last 50 years, a fifth of the
rainforest has disappeared.
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Cleared for timber and farming.
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Indigenous peoples have seen their
land taken away,
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their forest destroyed.
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But they're fighting back.
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And they're discovering that
their history
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is an important weapon in the
battle...
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CHANTING
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...as some communities try to prove
the lands they occupy today
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are traditional, indigenous
homelands.
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I've come to a remote river
town called Tefe,
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in the northwest of Brazil.
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From here I'm travelling up-river
to meet the Kokama,
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an indigenous community that live
in fear of eviction.
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But they've been finding unusual
pottery,
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which they hope will help them
to stay in their ancestral home.
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The Kokama people believe these
artefacts
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are from an ancient Amazonian
society.
493
00:33:29,565 --> 00:33:32,980
The problem is, we don't even know
that they are that old.
494
00:33:33,005 --> 00:33:35,700
We haven't even verified that
they are authentic,
495
00:33:35,725 --> 00:33:37,500
and the reason for that is no
archaeologist
496
00:33:37,525 --> 00:33:39,090
has actually examined them
497
00:33:39,115 --> 00:33:42,110
and that's because the Kokama are
actually quite protective over them
498
00:33:42,135 --> 00:33:44,900
and they are refusing to release
them to archaeologists.
499
00:33:44,925 --> 00:33:48,059
And so I'm, I'm feeling somewhat
beside myself,
500
00:33:48,084 --> 00:33:49,259
I'm feeling really excited,
501
00:33:49,284 --> 00:33:51,540
because they are actually letting
me see them.
502
00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:54,620
We're here.
503
00:33:57,084 --> 00:33:58,580
All right, here we go.
504
00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:03,059
Hi! Nice to meet you. Thank you for
having us.
505
00:34:12,365 --> 00:34:14,939
I am really, really honoured to see
them.
506
00:34:14,964 --> 00:34:17,259
And thank you, cos I feel
like everybody's come out
507
00:34:17,284 --> 00:34:18,650
to see them with me!
508
00:34:20,525 --> 00:34:25,500
The Kokama's lifestyle has
continually changed with the times.
509
00:34:26,805 --> 00:34:30,420
But they also claim centuries of
history on this land.
510
00:34:31,475 --> 00:34:34,470
And Chief Anildo has made it
his life's work
511
00:34:34,495 --> 00:34:37,580
to protect his people from the
threat of eviction.
512
00:34:54,475 --> 00:34:58,009
Although they're nervous of
outsiders, Chief Anildo has agreed
513
00:34:58,034 --> 00:35:01,090
to show me the artefacts
they've discovered nearby.
514
00:35:05,245 --> 00:35:06,300
Ooh!
515
00:35:06,325 --> 00:35:10,700
It's the first time they've shown
them to any archaeologist.
516
00:35:10,725 --> 00:35:12,420
Ah, OK.
517
00:35:15,284 --> 00:35:17,090
0h!
518
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,550
You can see there's quite a bit of
design going on here.
519
00:35:20,575 --> 00:35:24,420
Belais and her friend Teresa
discovered these pieces
520
00:35:24,445 --> 00:35:26,370
while they were collecting Brazil
nuts.
521
00:35:47,044 --> 00:35:49,300
It's hard to tell much from a
simple broken pot...
522
00:35:50,325 --> 00:35:52,809
...but I'm quickly led to another
house...
523
00:35:57,405 --> 00:35:59,730
SHE GASPS
524
00:35:59,755 --> 00:36:03,269
...and what could be an ancient
treasure trove.
525
00:36:06,525 --> 00:36:08,780
It's like a hidden museum around
here!
526
00:36:10,834 --> 00:36:14,380
Look at that! Oh, my gosh, that's
face, isn't it?
527
00:36:14,405 --> 00:36:16,740
This is easily, so far, of
everything I've seen,
528
00:36:16,765 --> 00:36:19,139
the most, kind of, intact, and most
spectacular, really.
529
00:36:19,164 --> 00:36:23,220
It's an archaeological artefact, it
could be ancient, um,
530
00:36:23,245 --> 00:36:25,809
and it's just kind of loitering
here in a back bedroom.
531
00:36:27,405 --> 00:36:28,450
It's a delicate situation,
532
00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:31,500
cos these things have been in the
ground for a very long time,
533
00:36:31,525 --> 00:36:33,300
and that's what's preserved them.
534
00:36:33,325 --> 00:36:36,740
If they were out in the open air, in
this sweltering heat,
535
00:36:36,765 --> 00:36:38,139
they would not have survived.
536
00:36:39,294 --> 00:36:42,420
The concern is that something like
this, you want protect it,
537
00:36:42,445 --> 00:36:45,910
and you want to protect it for the
Kokama, actually,
538
00:36:45,935 --> 00:36:48,269
not...not just for the
archaeologists.
539
00:36:52,044 --> 00:36:55,500
If the pottery can be proved to be
ancient artefacts,
540
00:36:55,525 --> 00:36:57,860
it could be powerful evidence
541
00:36:57,885 --> 00:37:01,780
in the case the Kokama are building
against eviction.
542
00:37:03,084 --> 00:37:06,530
But they've consistently refused to
show the pots to outsiders.
543
00:37:08,325 --> 00:37:10,860
Why were you afraid to let others
see them?
544
00:37:26,275 --> 00:37:29,500
They simply don't trust government
officials.
545
00:37:29,525 --> 00:37:32,660
They're worried that if the pots
are taken away,
546
00:37:32,685 --> 00:37:34,990
they will disappear for good,
547
00:37:35,015 --> 00:37:39,500
ending any hope they have of
remaining on their ancestral land.
548
00:37:57,735 --> 00:38:00,889
OK, I'm good with fish.
Fish is...fish is good.
549
00:38:00,914 --> 00:38:02,069
Fish is good.
550
00:38:02,094 --> 00:38:05,500
I really hope I can help the Kokama
prove
551
00:38:05,525 --> 00:38:09,180
that people have been living here
for centuries.
552
00:38:11,205 --> 00:38:14,380
Tomorrow will be the day of
reckoning
553
00:38:14,405 --> 00:38:18,069
in their desperate battle against
eviction.
554
00:38:19,205 --> 00:38:20,819
Thank you so much, thank you.
555
00:38:20,844 --> 00:38:21,819
Thank you!
556
00:38:22,815 --> 00:38:23,990
Obrigada.
557
00:38:37,335 --> 00:38:41,699
So, I guess today is going to be
really dramatic,
558
00:38:41,724 --> 00:38:44,060
and I'm really hoping not traumatic
for the Kokama,
559
00:38:44,085 --> 00:38:47,949
because we've organised for a
specialist in Amazonian pottery
560
00:38:47,974 --> 00:38:52,340
to come down and to essentially
assess and examine the pottery,
561
00:38:52,365 --> 00:38:56,949
so that they can tell us if the
pottery is actually ancient or not.
562
00:39:00,405 --> 00:39:04,380
The Kokama have allowed me to invite
Eduardo Tamanaha,
563
00:39:04,405 --> 00:39:07,779
an expert in ancient Amazonian
artefacts,
564
00:39:07,804 --> 00:39:12,180
to judge whether the pottery really
is pre-Columbian,
565
00:39:12,205 --> 00:39:18,060
made before the arrival of the
Spanish, more than 500 years ago.
566
00:39:21,125 --> 00:39:22,620
How's it going? Hi.
567
00:39:22,645 --> 00:39:23,870
This is the chief.
568
00:39:29,165 --> 00:39:33,060
The Kokama's hope of proving this is
ancient indigenous land
569
00:39:33,085 --> 00:39:36,230
rests on Eduardo's judgment.
570
00:39:42,615 --> 00:39:48,230
And I'm incredibly nervous about how
all this might turn out.
571
00:39:48,255 --> 00:39:50,819
Suddenly, I'm...
572
00:39:50,844 --> 00:39:53,949
...l'm really rooting for this stuff
to be pre-Columbian,
573
00:39:53,974 --> 00:39:56,750
because, you know, it is a wonderful
community.
574
00:39:56,775 --> 00:40:00,310
You see here, just... The kids, they
just come up to you, they say hello.
575
00:40:00,335 --> 00:40:01,540
Hey!
576
00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:03,870
It's quite...upsetting to think that
577
00:40:03,895 --> 00:40:07,870
that might not be the conclusion,
you know? This is not pre-Columbian.
578
00:40:13,645 --> 00:40:15,980
But this is archaeology, it's
science,
579
00:40:16,005 --> 00:40:18,310
and sometimes you don't get
the results that you want.
580
00:40:18,335 --> 00:40:20,590
And it can be, er, upsetting.
581
00:40:21,804 --> 00:40:24,310
That's not a...a nice feeling, at
all.
582
00:40:26,165 --> 00:40:29,260
So much here, it's just kind of
finding spots for it,
583
00:40:29,285 --> 00:40:30,899
it's like a treasure trove.
584
00:40:34,495 --> 00:40:37,060
It's the moment of truth.
585
00:40:43,415 --> 00:40:45,180
I'm studying your face, Eduardo.
586
00:40:46,285 --> 00:40:48,540
Trying to see if I can see any
clues.
587
00:40:52,365 --> 00:40:54,699
Well, what signs are you looking
for?
588
00:40:54,724 --> 00:40:57,470
There are some signs that we can
see if they are ancient,
589
00:40:57,495 --> 00:40:59,060
or not so ancient.
590
00:40:59,085 --> 00:41:02,500
What type of technology they used
to make this pottery.
591
00:41:02,525 --> 00:41:06,860
The colour of the clay, what did
they put in the base of this clay, too?
592
00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:11,230
Is there anything interesting that you
could tell me maybe about this one?
593
00:41:13,924 --> 00:41:16,779
Well, here, we can see what they
put in this clay.
594
00:41:17,885 --> 00:41:19,140
It's the speckliness, right?
595
00:41:19,165 --> 00:41:21,060
Yes. Slight speckles, spot and
stuff.
596
00:41:21,085 --> 00:41:25,420
That is from the tree bark that they
burn and mix with the clay.
597
00:41:25,445 --> 00:41:27,140
To...to make the pottery.
598
00:41:27,165 --> 00:41:29,470
Oh, gosh, yeah, yeah.
We call it "caraipe".
599
00:41:29,495 --> 00:41:31,110
You can actually see that.
600
00:41:31,135 --> 00:41:33,029
Yeah, it's very small.
601
00:41:33,054 --> 00:41:34,949
And it is a very old technology.
602
00:41:36,724 --> 00:41:38,190
All right, this one.
603
00:41:39,285 --> 00:41:40,550
Hm...
604
00:41:41,695 --> 00:41:46,060
That's very interesting, because you
can see here the Yuma face.
605
00:41:46,085 --> 00:41:48,829
Right? Yeah. We have here the Yuma
face. Uh-huh.
606
00:41:48,854 --> 00:41:51,190
Probably they mixed something with
red,
607
00:41:51,215 --> 00:41:53,670
to make the eyes, the ears, the
nose.
608
00:41:53,695 --> 00:41:56,980
It's very typical on archaeological
sites in the Amazon.
609
00:41:58,215 --> 00:42:01,029
So, I guess this is the big moment.
610
00:42:01,054 --> 00:42:03,949
Um...what's your professional
opinion?
611
00:42:03,974 --> 00:42:08,550
Well, definitely, with no doubt, it
is all ancient pottery.
612
00:42:08,575 --> 00:42:15,029
All of this is pre-Columbian, and
probably with 1,000 or 1,500 years ago.
613
00:42:15,054 --> 00:42:16,980
Shut up! That's amazing, really?
Yeah.
614
00:42:17,005 --> 00:42:18,029
Oh, my gosh.
615
00:42:18,054 --> 00:42:19,500
I'm so glad!
616
00:42:19,525 --> 00:42:21,860
I feel really, really excited with
that,
617
00:42:21,885 --> 00:42:24,190
because it is a great collection
that they have.
618
00:42:24,215 --> 00:42:25,500
That is really amazing.
619
00:42:32,215 --> 00:42:33,470
Eduardo?
620
00:42:33,495 --> 00:42:35,500
You're Brazilian, do you want to...
621
00:42:35,525 --> 00:42:37,779
...do you want to tell them the good
news?
622
00:42:54,445 --> 00:42:56,909
APPLAUSE
Yeah!
623
00:42:59,775 --> 00:43:01,110
Give us a high one.
624
00:43:01,135 --> 00:43:03,470
It really couldn't be better news.
625
00:43:03,495 --> 00:43:06,829
It's persuasive evidence that
indigenous people,
626
00:43:06,854 --> 00:43:08,779
probably Kokama themselves,
627
00:43:08,804 --> 00:43:14,029
have lived here for well over 1,000
years.
628
00:43:20,965 --> 00:43:23,470
It means their ancestors may well
629
00:43:23,495 --> 00:43:26,420
have been part of those great
civilisations...
630
00:43:28,085 --> 00:43:30,829
...that the Spanish missionary,
Carvajal,
631
00:43:30,854 --> 00:43:33,060
witnessed all those centuries ago.
632
00:43:35,365 --> 00:43:37,270
CHIEF SNIFFLES
633
00:43:38,445 --> 00:43:39,670
God, this is...
634
00:43:42,495 --> 00:43:43,940
Chief, how are you feeling,
635
00:43:43,965 --> 00:43:48,270
and what does this mean for you, and
for the Kokama?
636
00:44:28,716 --> 00:44:30,922
APPLAUSE
637
00:44:35,557 --> 00:44:40,972
It's a moving end to the first part
of my epic mission.
638
00:44:40,997 --> 00:44:45,372
To explore how the story of the
ancient Amazon
639
00:44:45,397 --> 00:44:49,972
is being completely rewritten by
brand-new discoveries.
640
00:44:55,277 --> 00:44:58,612
What I've seen in the Amazon has
blown my mind.
641
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:02,641
Because it has completely changed my
perception.
642
00:45:04,997 --> 00:45:07,011
See, we thought of the Amazon,
historically,
643
00:45:07,036 --> 00:45:10,202
as being this wilderness with a
few indigenous groups in it.
644
00:45:11,916 --> 00:45:15,532
But we're finding out that, actually,
just a few hundred years ago,
645
00:45:15,557 --> 00:45:18,002
complex societies existed in the
Amazon.
646
00:45:18,027 --> 00:45:21,332
Societies with infrastructure, with
roads, with hierarchy.
647
00:45:22,586 --> 00:45:26,922
But my Amazon adventure is only
just beginning,
648
00:45:26,947 --> 00:45:29,282
and I want to find out so much more.
649
00:45:29,307 --> 00:45:31,172
How did they get here?
650
00:45:32,357 --> 00:45:35,922
How did they survive and thrive in
such large numbers,
651
00:45:35,947 --> 00:45:38,172
in such an inhospitable place?
652
00:45:42,836 --> 00:45:47,332
Next time, I'm going deep into
dangerous Columbian territory...
653
00:45:47,357 --> 00:45:50,482
We basically got our visa from a
bunch of rebels.
654
00:45:51,997 --> 00:45:55,612
...to discover never-seen-before
ancient rock art.
655
00:45:57,117 --> 00:45:59,922
This is the prehistoric Sistine
ChapeL
656
00:46:02,227 --> 00:46:06,612
I come face-to-face with the remains
of ancient Amazonians.
657
00:46:07,796 --> 00:46:08,972
They are 6,000 years old.
658
00:46:11,277 --> 00:46:13,612
And I meet a people who are changing
the story...
659
00:46:13,637 --> 00:46:17,172
You share DNA with people in
Australia.
660
00:46:17,197 --> 00:46:20,362
...of one of the greatest ever human
journeys.
661
00:46:44,357 --> 00:46:47,332
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