They predate the rain forest. Maybe they were just building elevated positions for better fields of fire.
FMCDH(BITS)
Cataclysmic astrobleme ping.
Are these scientists now telling us that all that bio diversity came into being in a mere 6,000 years?
So if the jungle went away again, it’s normal and we won’t all die?
It has been my opinion for many years that we know very little about mans past, let alone the world in detail.
Most of what I have seen as revealed science and predictions of the future and past are uneducated guesses based on fragmentary evidence.
Gee, really honey child?
You mean that when you have fruit producing trees in a percentage that is several hundred percent over any other "wild forest" in the world that might be a sign that people planted them?
And soil does not naturally have pot shards and charcoal pounded into it? Well, who knew!
The key point is that man has been radically altering the “natural” landscape for as long as he has been Man. Famously, aboriginal Australians had the whole place on fire at various times of the year - it increased the productivity, “naturally”.
Fire was the chief tool of landscape management; that’s why we should celebrate Earth Day with fire - lots of fires - it’s a good time of year to burn the ditches and such. ;^)
Glowbull Warming! It's retroactive now.
That sounds like a fortification, and a pretty substantial one. I wonder if they have found destruction layers, mass graves, etc., and whether we should expect to find much of that nature given the present climate.
Now let me get this straight. It is said that the Amazonian rainforest contains plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world (save the rainforest). If the rainforest is only 2,000-3,000 years old is that enough time to evolve these unique species?
Does this mean to imply... that the climate might have changed?
No.
bttt
In a short article two years ago I proposed that the Amazon rain forest could only be a few thousand years old and not 55 million years as was currently believed.
See here: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/10/28/the-amazon-rainforest/
Or my web.... http://www.gks.uk.com/Sahara_Desert_Amazon/
These latest finding are a major step towards supporting my stance. I see future research ultimately confirming this.
I arrived at the above conclusion by researching my theory which proposes that the Sahara & Arabian deserts are of very recent extraterrestrial origin.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2010/arch10/100408sahara.htm
http://www.gks.uk.com/Sahara_Desert_Chaos/
I reasoned if the Sahara desert didn’t exist 3-4,000 years ago, it couldn’t have sustained the Amazon rain forest with its nutrient rich dust which blows across the Atlantic.
Gary Gilligan (catastrophist)
http://www.gks.uk.com/
This is a fascinating article but I think it is important to note this is based on evidence from the BOLIVIAN portion of the overall Amazonian rainforest, which is and was on the periphery of the rainforest proper, and still at its most extreme North-east point almost 500 miles from the Amazon river.
No telling that the forest itself was smaller or not there at all, but my (uneducated ) guess would be there were still vast regions still under forest while Bolivia was savannah. The whole rainforest area now is almost the size of the US East of the Mississippi.
I wouldn’t extrapolate an overall theory about the rainforest from evidence in Bolivia alone.
So the world around us is not static? Who knew?