Secrets of the Dead, Hidden in the Amazon

PBS WESTERN RESERVE (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 10 PM

Thursday, Nov. 10, at 3 AM

Recent discoveries, including funerary urns with highly decorative patterns, and technological advances like the remote sensor system known as LiDAR, are shedding new light on our understanding of pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon. Scientists speculate the rainforest was home to between 8 and 10 million people living in large, well-established communities.