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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Christina Larson

Archeologists map lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon, settlements that lasted 1,000 years

Antoine Dorison, Stéphen Rostain

Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago.

A series of earthen mounds and buried roads in Ecuador was first noticed more than two decades ago by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. But at the time, " I wasn’t sure how it all fit together,” said Rostain, one of the researchers who reported on the finding Thursday in the journal Science.

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