"The settlements are much bigger than others in the Amazon,” says Stéphen Rostain at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. “They are comparable with Maya sites.”
What’s more, at between 3000 and 1500 years old, these cities are also older than other pre-Columbian ones discovered in the Amazon. Why the people who built them disappeared isn’t clear.
It’s good that you’re not sure. Most indigenous pops weren’t buddy-buddy with each other, no matter the region. And haters gonna hate. So, raid and pillage for whatever reason. Boom! Civilization gone.
Sure, but there is no evidence of that here.