Re: NFC: 300 year old fish trap in Amazon

[jake levi <jlevi_us at yahoo_com>]

One of the theories is that this is the source of the
original 'Atlantis' legends. 
jake
--- CEFCHURCH at aol_com wrote:
>
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/030401-fishtraps.htm
>  <A 
>
HREF="http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/030401-fishtraps.htm">An
> 
> Enormous Fish Trap                   Miles of
> Earthworks Harvested Seafood 
> from Amazon Floods  By Michael Stowe</A> 
> 
> Deep in the Amazon jungles of Bolivia, researchers
> are uncovering the remains 
> of an incredibly advanced network of earthworks and
> ponds that was created 
> more than 300 years ago. The long, curving earthen
> structures were built as 
> permanent fish traps to take advantage of seasonal
> flooding, when fish 
> migrated to spawn in the flooded savannas, says
> Clark Erickson, Associate 
> Curator of the American Section at the University of
> Pennsylvania Museum of 
> Archaeology and Anthropology
> 


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