Did You Know There's A Stonehenge In The Amazon Too?
Aaron Spray - Yesterday 1:30 PM
In northern Brazil's Amazon close to French Guinea is a curious archeological site. The Solstice Archeological Park (called Parque Arqueológico do Solstício in Portuguese) is the site of a megalithic stone circle - something one might expect more from Europe than the Amazon. This site, colloquially known as Amazon Stonehenge, is made up of 127 blocks of granite on the bank of the Rego Grande river.
The Solstice Archeological Park remains something of an enigma - like the famous Stonehenge of England that researchers are still looking for answers as to its purpose and its history. Monolithic circles often called "Stonehenge" or "henges" are actually quite common in Europe, many like the Cromlech of the Almendres is old than the one in England but is almost unknown as a tourist attraction.
The Solstice Archeological Park - The Amazon Stonehenge
The Amazon Stonehenge has some 127 blocks of granite - each up to around 4 meters tall. The circle measures over 30 meters in diameter and is set on a hilltop by the river. It is thought that the granite blocks may have been quarried from a part of the river around two miles away.
One thing it does have in common with the much older Stonehenge in Great Britain is that much of its original function remains a mystery. It is believed that the henge was constructed by indigenous peoples around 1,000 years ago - or around 500 years before European contact. It seems that the culture that built it was sophisticated.
More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/did-you-know-there-s-a-stonehenge-in-the-amazon-too/ar-AAYh5Tf
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Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon
June 27, 2006, 5:59 PM CDT / Source: The Associated Press
By Stan Lehman
A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.
The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet (2.75 meters) tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter.
On the shortest day of the year — Dec. 21 — the shadow of one of the blocks disappears when the sun is directly above it.
"It is this block's alignment with the winter solstice that leads us to believe the site was once an astronomical observatory," said Mariana Petry Cabral, an archaeologist at the Amapa State Scientific and Technical Research Institute. "We may be also looking at the remnants of a sophisticated culture."
Anthropologists have long known that local indigenous populations were acute observers of the stars and sun. But the discovery of a physical structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Columbian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more sophisticated than previously suspected.
More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13582228
Google images of this site:
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