Bad Non-PC Native Amazonians!

They're still making fools out of generations of half-baked American college professors.

How?

This time, instead of having lounged around a few thousand years while waiting for the White Man to show up and teach them how to rub two sticks together to make a fire, along with bringing to them the Social Gospel according to the Saintly Marx Brothers, nowadays more likely Groucho's version than Karl's, these Amazonian hardcases apparently said:

Yo mama!

'Cause we're going to discover Advanced Applied Astronomy!

And so, they did.

Where?

Not far from the Equator, in the village of Calcoene, coast of Amapa State, near French Guyana, in far Northern Brazil.

[Source: El Paso Times. Wednesday, June 28, 2006]

"Archaeologists find blocks of apparent tropical observatory."

by: Stan Lehman. Associated Press.

"SAO PAULO, Brazil -- a grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory -- a find archaelogists say indicates that early rain-forest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.

"The 127 blocks, some as tall as 9 feet, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill.

"They are arranged like a crown 100 feet 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 astonomical observatory, said Mariana Petry Cabral, an archaelogist 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 that pre-Colombian Indians in the Amazon rain-forest might have been more sophisticated than previously suspected."

My, oh my!

Why not check it out:

http://www.examiner.com/a-162011~tropical_stonehenge_may_have_been_found.html

Dennis