Too Much To Dream

Amazonia

This is very cool -- via Cronaca comes this report of some findings about pre-Columbian civilization in the Amazon:

Now Michael Heckenberger, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, and his colleagues have excavated and mapped 19 villages, roads, trenches, bridges, agriculture, open parklands and working forests in the Upper Xingu region of central Brazil. "The folks who lived there were clearly not simple," says Heckenberger.

The archaeologists used satellite imaging and global positioning technology to map the traces of the settlements.