Posted on 03/07/2007 9:48:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv
"These data are directly relevant to the resilience of Amazonian conservation, as they do not support the contention that all of Amazonia is a 'built landscape' and therefore a product of past human land use," Bush says. "Most archaeologists are buying into the argument that you had big populations that transformed the landscape en masse. Another group of archaeologists say that transformation was very much limited to river corridors, and if you went away from the river corridors there wasn't that much impact. That's what our findings tend to support." Bush doesn't expect that his new findings will settle the debate, however... At one end, he says, is Anna Roosevelt of the Field Museum in Chicago (she argues for large populations dispersed throughout Amazonia); at the other is Betty Meggers at Smithsonian (she argues these were very primitive people with low population).
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Human settlements far older than suspected discovered in South America.
DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 5 (May 2002) | (May 2002) | By John Dorfman
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Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon
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Fascinating.
:') It would be pretty odd if the largest river in the world didn't sprout at least one major civilization, as was the case with the other great river systems.
Hey, nice.
Good point. And, as we know, ancient farmers were pretty darn good at figuring out what it would take to cultivate their land, as in Mesopotamia, among others.
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An apropos image, given the Anna Roosevelt quotes in one of those earlier topics linked in message #2. ;')
"Roosevelt says her mother, an artist with a strong interest in Southwestern American Indian antiquities, gets the credit for inspiring her to pursue archaeology and adventure. Since the age of 9, Roosevelt says, she has known exactly what she wanted to do with her life."
"It was lucky that all the men had died before I began growing up," she says, "so I could grow up in a matriarchy and know that it was perfectly fine for women to run everything and have men be the decoration. So that helped me form my personality and therefore have success. Because I never had any sense that I had to be meek and mild and put myself behind someone else."
No Ma'am! ;')
I am not surprised that humans have been in the Americas for eons. I believe the first one came around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.
:') I'd be surprised if it weren't even earlier than that.
Who knew there *were* 1491 different population theories for the Amazon?
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