Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
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Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 29, 202620 min
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Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, the structures hidden beneath the Amazon's trees. And the earliest fossil squid ancestor. I'm Nick Pertridge-Hell.

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And I'm Benjamin Thompson. For our first story this week, we're heading over to the southwest corner of the Amazon to hear about the discovery of a lot of ancient human activity that's long been hidden from view. Specifically, we're heading to an area in what is now the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas,

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close to where the borders of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia meet. Between around 700 BC to 900 AD, this area was home to people who researchers are now calling the Acre. We gave the name Akkuri for this civilization because at first we don't know what they call themselves.

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