The book "1491" covers this issue. There were Spanish accounts of encountering a populated Amazon basin but people discounted that. Turns out to be true. One theory is that the Europeans brought the malaria carrying mosquitoes from Europe and Africa and they resulted in a devastation of the native Amazonians.
1 posted on
03/27/2018 9:08:17 AM PDT by
C19fan
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2 posted on
03/27/2018 9:15:36 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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I have both “1491” and “1493” in my book collection.
Charles Mann was hooted when 1491 was first published.
He has the last laugh now...
3 posted on
03/27/2018 9:17:47 AM PDT by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: C19fan
If they only had a .com things would be a OK now.
4 posted on
03/27/2018 9:17:57 AM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
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5 posted on
03/27/2018 9:18:34 AM PDT by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence there were up to 1,500 fortified villages in the rainforest away from major rivers - two-thirds of which are yet to be discovered. Is that "archaeologist-speak" for: "We have uncovered evidence of 500 fortified villages..."?
6 posted on
03/27/2018 9:20:56 AM PDT by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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"One theory is that the Europeans brought the malaria carrying mosquitoes from Europe and Africa and they resulted in a devastation of the native Amazonians." An alternate theory is they all came north looking for freebies.
7 posted on
03/27/2018 9:22:07 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
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Percy Fawcett was right, just didn’t have the means.
I suggest the book:
River of darkness : Francisco Orellana’s legendary voyage of death and discovery down the Amazon.
Orellana found out what was down the Amazon from Peru/Ecuador.
The Lost City of “Z” by Grann (the movie is sort of based on this book) is about Fawcett, but, has some background in the region.
8 posted on
03/27/2018 9:22:26 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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The discovery fills a major gap in the history of the Amazon, and provides further evidence that the rainforest once thought to be untouched by human farming or occupation has in fact been heavily influenced by those who lived in it. So, global warming was started by 13th century Amazonians?
9 posted on
03/27/2018 9:23:56 AM PDT by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
Cut down the rainforest, find things.
To: C19fan
These are man-made ditches with strange square, circular or hexagonal shapes. Geometrically speaking, I do not think there is anything the least bit "strange" about shapes known as squares, circles and hexagons.
11 posted on
03/27/2018 9:27:26 AM PDT by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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If “two-thirds of which are yet to be discovered,” how do they know?
More fake news.
15 posted on
03/27/2018 9:31:27 AM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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I find the issue of malaria questionable. It was the Amazon tribes who informed the Jesuits of the benefits of quinona bark (quinine, or often called Jesuits’s bark). It would seem more likely that the Europeans introduced the aedes aegypti rather than the anopheles mosquito.
17 posted on
03/27/2018 9:36:38 AM PDT by
Bookshelf
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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence there were up to 1,500 fortified villages in the rainforest away from major rivers - two-thirds of which are yet to be discovered.That worked out well for them.
20 posted on
03/27/2018 10:05:50 AM PDT by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrat laws and regulations kill people.)
To: C19fan
1,500 fortified villages in the rainforest away from major rivers -
two-thirds of which are yet to be discovered.Sooooo.....how do they know that they're there?
21 posted on
03/27/2018 10:19:56 AM PDT by
wbill
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I read the 1491 book and looked trough it carefully to find out how he came up with the famous 96% dead claim. There was just one page that essentially said that less than that wouldn’t sound as sensational and more than that would be unbelievable. He had absolutely NO firm proof for what he claimed and no other plagues in history have such a high death rate.
He wrote an interesting book, but it all hinged on the unproven 96%. I put it under fiction or fantasy.
To: C19fan
Shows how quickly a preindustrial civilization can disappear
To: C19fan
Another reason rainforests are deathtraps.
24 posted on
03/27/2018 11:46:12 AM PDT by
IronJack
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