Amazon Stonehenge

Amazon Stonehenge

.cite news
title = 'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil
url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1637840.htm
publisher = ABC News Online
date = 2006-05-14
accessdate = 2007-02-13
quote = Incorporates text from Agence France-Presse (AFP).] cite news
first = Rhett
last = Butler
title = Amazon Stonehenge suggests advanced ancient rainforest culture
url = http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0514-amazon.html
publisher = Mongabay.com
date = 2006-05-14
accessdate = 2007-02-13
quote = ] ]

In May 2006, reports emerged of an "Amazon Stonehenge", found in the Amazon Basin, in Brazil. It is comprised of 127 blocks of granite, each 3 metres (10 feet) high, standing upright in even circles in an open field, according to ABC News and Mongabay.com. According to MSNBC, some of the blocks are has high as 9 feet tall, and crown a grassy hilltop. Based on ceramic fragments found nearby, archaeologists believe this structure is between 500 and 2000 years old.cite news
first = Stan
last = Lehman
title = Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon: Centuries-old granite grouping may have served as observatory
url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13582228/
publisher = MSNBC
date = 2006-06-27
accessdate = 2007-02-13
quote = ]

On the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, December 21, the shadow of one of the blocks disappears when the sun is directly above it. It is this block's alignment with the December solstice that leads archaeologists to believe the site was once an astronomical observatory and that they may also be looking at the remnants of a sophisticated culture.

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title = 'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil: report
publisher = Agence France-Press
date = 2006-05-13
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quote = Search the [http://www.afp.com/english/globe/?pid=archives archive] for "'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil: report" as the title, and make sure the date range includes 13 May 2006. It is not free.
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first = Gibby
last = Zobel
title = Will Amazon's Stonehenge rewrite history?
url = http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=24042
publisher = Al Jazeera English
date = 2006-06-29
accessdate = 2007-02-13
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first = Steve
last = Kingstone
title = 'Brazilian Stonehenge' discovered
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/4767717.stm
publisher = BBC News
date = 2006-05-13
accessdate = 2007-02-13
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