In 2024, a LIDAR survey of part of the Amazon rainforest discovered an ancient civilization in the Upano Valley of what country?

In eastern Ecuador in 2024, a team used LIDAR scanning on a section of the Amazon rainforest to discover the outlines of dozens of structures, providing evidence of an ancient civilization in the area. The sites were believed to have been inhabited as early as 500 BCE, predating any other known complex Amazonian society by over a millennium.

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