Recent aerial LiDAR surveys across the southwestern Amazon Basin have mapped hundreds of geometric earthworks and massive pre-Columbian settlements belonging to the Aquiry civilization. Mainstream history long insisted the dense rainforest was a pristine, untamed wilderness incapable of sustaining large urban populations. However, critics note that local Indigenous communities and prior field archaeologists had already documented these sites decades ago, proving that the only thing truly 'lost' was the mainstream academy's attention span.