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This could be considered
a lost technology.

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It's impossible. It's impossible.

3
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Twenty years from now,
all the forest will disappear.

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I was arriving in Rio Branco by jet,
commercial jet.

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-Sitting in the window seat.
-Yeah.

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-And looking at the environment like this.
-Yes.

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Like this.

8
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And then I see a big circle.

9
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My God. What's this? Huh?

10
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-And the jet is so fast. Gone.
-Yeah.

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Disappear.

12
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Fantastic design. And so big.

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-So enormous. Enormous.
-Yeah. Yeah.

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Ah, look. Another one.

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-Yes. They're everywhere.
-Everywhere.

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Another one here.

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Another one here.

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-The first one was a famous archaeologist.
-Yes.

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-I showed her the picture…
-Yeah. Yeah.

20
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…and she looked and said, "Where is it?
In the Amazon? It's impossible."

21
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It's impossible? Look at the picture.

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Help me, please.

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-I don't know what this is.
-Yes.

24
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I think so
because many of these are so complicated.

25
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It is necessary to have pre-planned
how to do it and how to organize it.

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This area is full of roads.

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-Hunters and gatherers do not build roads.
-Mm-hmm.

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They don't have any need for that.

29
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It needs already society
with a much more higher level of thinking.

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-I see.
- And relationships between each other.

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-So that is a really complex society.
-Yeah.

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No, it was totally a… surprise for us.

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From Tequinho,
we found 40,000, uh, shards of ceramics.

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-Most of it is of high quality…
-Right.

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-…and polychrome ceramics.
-Right.

36
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Yes, normally polychrome ceramic is
considered to be part of civilization.

37
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I think you're right because

38
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this Geoglyph culture
is exactly the same time

39
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when the Greek culture had
archaeological period

40
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that has been called
Geometric Greek period.

41
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That's a very good question
because we excavated up to one meter…

42
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-Mm-hmm.
-…and after that, the ceramic disappeared.

43
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But then I noticed
that the charcoal continued.

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And we went down and down and down,

45
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and then we started to take
radiocarbon samples,

46
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and finally we found
that many of these sites

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have been established already
10,000 years ago.

48
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-From the deep past, exactly.
-Yeah. Fascinating.

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Our understanding stopped
on the border of the forest,

50
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and now we want to know what's there.

51
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By using this system,
we can clear the vegetation out

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and get the results from the bottom.

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And in that way,
we can see the topography exactly.

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We are going to fly at 80 meters.

55
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That's good.

56
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Maybe we can have
about 100 to 200 points per square meter.

57
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That's excellent.

58
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The topography will be very precise.

59
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These drones will change everything
in archaeology.

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The Apurinã are a people

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whose origins are closely tied to nature,
to the earth.

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I am standing in a place

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for which I have the utmost respect.

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For us, it is a sacred place.

65
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It wasn't made for war.
It wasn't made for defense.

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It was made to express something cultural.

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So, we compare this here

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as if it were a circle of the Apurinã

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when they dance and pay homage
to a deceased chief, a shaman,

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to an important person
from the village who has died.

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We see this space as somewhere
that would welcome us

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once we have left the material world.

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We surveyed the area using the LiDAR.

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And you see the trees?

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And now…