One interesting aspect of this discovery - and how it might change mainstream views of ancient civilisations - is the role played in it by a mainstream researcher opposing the views of other mainstream researchers:
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"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
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Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.
"But I'm very stubborn, so I did it anyway. Now I must admit I am quite happy to have made such a big discovery," he says.
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