Amazon The Lost World will be broadcast on Sundays from 13 December,2020, at 7.30pm on SABC 3.
The Americas have housed some of history’s most mysterious and iconic civilisations – from the mountainous Inca of Peru, to the Aztec of Mexico. But the vast jungles of the Amazon have always been different – a dark, untouched wilderness, home to remote, scattered tribes. But that turns out to be wrong.… Amazon – The Lost World series re-writes the story of the Amazon with astonishing new discoveries.
Right now, we’re discovering that the Amazon was once home to a population of millions with dense settlements and complex societies, stretching back 2000 years. With new archaeology and imaging technology that uses lasers to “see” beneath the dense jungle canopy, Lost Cities Of The Amazon, reveals this incredible lost world.
Incredible cities along the Amazon
Here you discover incredible ceremonial Earthworks and explore previously unseen settlements. The series digs for remains of some of the earliest Amazonians, seeking clues to how villages grew, and how the jungle itself was tamed for agriculture on a massive scale. And we’ll see how these discoveries make sense of long-dismissed stories of a Spanish priest who described incredible cities along the Amazon 500 years ago.
But just where did it all come from? And when? Taking intrepid journey’s into dangerous hotspots we’ll seek out a vast cache of ancient rock art with clues to the very first Amazonians over 10,000 years ago and how they survived hunting mammoth-like creatures. New archaeology reveals how the first settlements developed, and how the jungle was planted with fruit and nut trees.
Meet local people today who often hold the clues to the ancient Amazon – from the shape of tribal villages, to unusual genetic roots that question everything we thought we knew about the great human migration into South America. But the Amazon today is a dangerous place, and its people are under threat as indigenous tribes fight for survival against loggers, gold miners and drug cartels, and while the rainforest itself is destroyed right in front of the world’s eyes.
Amazon The Lost World episodes
Episode 1 – Lost Jungle Civilisation
New discoveries in the Amazon rainforest are revealing evidence of a long-lost civilisation. Mysterious geometric shapes carved into the Brazilian landscape, ditches in the forest, and giant mounds on the plains of Bolivia – are these remnants of ancient jungle cities?
Episode 2 – Beginnings of a Jungle Civilisation
New discoveries are revealing a forgotten civilisation that once thrived in the jungles of the Amazon. But who created it and when? Archaeology and technology trace the first steps of a forgotten jungle civilisation.
Episode 3 – Fall of a Jungle Civilisation
New discoveries are revealing a forgotten civilisation that once thrived in the jungles of the Amazon. But what happened to it? Are there clues to what caused the collapse in today’s battles against deforestation, gold mining, and disease? And do the surviving Amazonian people face a similar fate?
What: Amazon The Lost World SABC 3
When: Sundays from 13 December,2020, 7.30pm
Where: SABC 3
Web: www.sabc3.co.za
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