The Rocky Mountain News
Page 42
Monday, December 23, 1991
Science Watch (column)

Anthropology
Lost civilization found

  Archeologists hae discovered a lost
civilization in the Amazon jungle that
dates to about 6,000 B.C.,
_The Independent_ newspaper reports.
''The discovery and the extraordinarily
early date overturn the accepted early
history of the Americas,'' the London
newspaper said last week.  The evidence
shows several large settlements on the
Amazon's banks.  Human skeletons at the
site are ''robust, tall, compared to
later Amerindian populations,''