Archaeologist Uncover Oldest Home in Amazon Nearly 3,000 Years-Old

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French and Ecuadorian archaeologists discovered in Ecuador’s Pastaza province the nearly 3,000-year-old remains of what appears to be the oldest home in the Amazon region, the project chief told Efe.

“We found postholes and stoves and a few vestiges of ceramics and stones,” Stephen Rostain said.

He said they found the place near Puy two years ago and set up the camp in July when they excavated a meter (3 feet) deep over an area of some 90 square meters (970 square feet).

“Stoves built with stones are generally extremely old, from the Formative Period (1800 B.C.-500 A.D.). We took some samples that go back to a date some 3,000 years ago, and this year we found all the marks of the posts and some materials, with which we could reconstruct how the house looked,” he said.

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/archaeologist-uncover-oldest-home-in-amazon-nearly-3000-years-old/26990/

It must be quite a challenge to uncover such sites at depth on a floodplain like the Amazon basin.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Have read about finding old areas in Brazil's Amazon, but this is completely new.

As the article says, looks as if it's OLDER than current finds in Brazil, too.

How interesting is it going to be for THESE investigators, anyway! Amazing.

Looking forward with deep interest to new info. on Ecuador's Amazon discoveries. To imagine it's been there, of course, all along. Wonderful.

Google images page for Ecuador's Pastaza Province. Spectacular!

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS411US412&q=Ecuador+Pastaza+province&biw=1064&bih=643&sei=EnkvUu6dApPM9gTTq4H4Bg&tbm=isch