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Here's how you access this world:

>Go to school for archaeology / anthropology / world religion
>spent the next 6 years planning out every meticulous detail and $ number value required to make an expedition into the remote amazon
>recieve grant money or participate in existing grant-funded research
>go do it with the intent of publishing completely opinion-free objective observations. leave your personal feelings about human history out of it.

otherwise you've got nothing to work with that will put you in any official context to explore these sites or publish any form of observations on them.
sucks, but adulthood is understanding that, like it or not, wealthy entities and people with expensive pieces of paper are the ones who are actually going and doing meaningful intellectual work and getting paid for it. you have to pass through a filter of bullshit in order to hold the actual authority to have any form of intellectual freedom or ownership of your work.

you can spend your whole life researching this for fun and publishing books on it. it'll be fun, fun to read, etc, but your life's work will be nullified the MOMENT someone with a degree shows up and publishes even slight lazy official research on it. they'll get away with dismissive, opinionated conclusions and speculations while you get laughed at for thinking you've got any authority to have persona opinions or speculation on it. You will be publically mocked by archaeologists who have not and will not step foot near these sites.

this goes for all fields of science, academia is a racket. you have to want that end-game life of being a well-funded independent researcher, otherwise it's wasted time.

ultimately, archaeology as a rule will dictate that you don't disturb any of this stuff at all without extensive SA govt. presence, poltiics and indigienous activism will get in your wa, yand this will all remain unresearched for decades.

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