Great Riddles in Archaeology: El Dorado in the Americas

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Published: Thu Jan 05 2012

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Dr. Clark Erickson January 4, 2012

Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series El Dorado in the Americas: A Wild Dream or Actual Fact?

Conquistadors, explorers, treasure hunters, and many others have long sought the famed El Dorado or Golden City. Throughout history, elaborate stories and myths have circulated about the existence of such a place and bits of evidence have been assembled to attempt to prove its reality. Dr. Clark Erickson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the origins of El Dorado, the complex narratives that circulate, and the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological information that may help us understand the popularity of the concept of El Dorado through time.

This is almost like a capitalist plot, a tissue of lies, to justify the massive exploitation and clear cutting of the Amazon, claiming the native peoples had a complex, very exploitive civilization there previously. Except if that was true there wouldn't be the huge number of species that exist in the Amazon now. A few hundred years isn't time enough for the species diversification that now exist in the Amazon jungle.

And here today Bolsonaro is deliberately having the Amazon burned.