indianische Städte in Amazonien?

[913Chris]

Find das Ding jetzt grad nicht. So weit ich mich erinnern kann, bin ich auf dem Umweg über einen Spektrum-Artikel (über den, den ich zuerst zitiert habe) auf Carvajal gestoßen und hab mir dann den Rest zusammengesucht.

Die englische Wiki schreibt immerhin:
"Caravajal, who was one of the survivors of the expedition, narrated the events in his work Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana ("Account of the recent discovery of the famous Grand river which was discovered by great good fortune by Captain Francisco de Orellana"). In it, the friar recorded the dates of the expedition as well as a large number of notes of ethnological interest such as the sizes and dispositions of the indigenous peoples which occupied the banks of the river, their tactics of war, rituals, customs, utensils, and the like. (...)Father Carvajal's diary of the Orellana expedition has achieved prominence recently. For over four centuries, scholars dismissed its reports of large cities, well developed roads, monumental construction, fortified towns, and dense populations. It was thought that the acidic soils of Amazonia could not support the level of agriculture necessary to sustain such a civilization. His writings were largely dismissed as fabrications and propaganda."

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