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“Top Ten” Brazil Discovery... Stonewatch in Brazil’s Amapa state  Archaeology Magazine has just named an intriguing, prehistoric site in northern Brazil’s Amapa state one of the world’s top ten discoveries in 2006. For its striking similarity with the world famous landmark in Great Britain the remote, jungle forest hilltop site has been labeled an “Amazon Stonehenge”Composed of 127 granite monoliths weighing several tons each the mysterious circular structure was apparently designed to pinpoint the winter solstice. Brazilian archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral believes the site may be 2,000 years old, and convincingly reflects a sophisticated, prehistoric culture existed just north of the Amazon Delta. Plans for preservation and protection from marauding wild buffalo are underway. This writer visited the site in January and learned the locals have labeled the complex Relogio de Pedras or “Stonewatch.” Further study will surely confirm Sonewatch’s emergence as further proof of South America’s astonishing prehistory that is now unfolding. Stonewatch is located six hours by auto from Macapa, served daily with three Airbus 320 TAM flights from Belem. Contact: SETUR (Amapa State Secretary of Tourism) online at www.setur.ap.gov.br |
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