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Published · transcript-backedEd Barnhart: belief
30 Sept 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
“I do think so. I think religion in South America began in the Amazon. I think there were people there, very old.”
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- Ed Barnhart
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- belief
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- 30 Sept 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…So is it possible, which is something you’ve argued, that civilization started in the Amazon, in the jungle versus the coast? I do think so. I think religion in South America began in the Amazon. I think there were people there, very old. Actually, the earliest pottery in all of the Americas, all these places that we have civilizations that grew up, you know where the oldest pottery is? The middle of the Amazon. So there’s interesting cultures developing in the Amazon. So religion, you would say, preceded civilization?…
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