Martti Pärssinen, archaeologist: "We have found an ancient Amazonian civilization that had a million inhabitants" (Interview)

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Martti Pärssinen, archaeologist: "We have found an ancient Amazonian civilization that had a million inhabitants" (Interview)

The first geoglyphs were discovered in 1977. After 20 years working on the ground, archaeologist Martti Pärssinen demonstrated, together with the Brazilian paleontologist and geographer Alceu Ranzi, that it is an ancient Amazonian culture that they called Aquiry, and that it lived in the region of Acre between 700 BC and 900 AD. During its stage of greatest splendor, approximately 1,900 years ago, it became one of the great civilizations of the …