Posted on 07/24/2015 10:16:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It is often held aloft by environmental campaign groups as an example of one of the last remaining regions of unspoiled habitat left in the world.
But instead of being a pristine rainforest untouched by human hands, the Amazon appears to have been profoundly shaped by mankind.
An international team of researchers have published evidence that suggests the Amazon was once home to millions of people who lived and farmed in the area now covered by trees.
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Can we turn DC into a Rain Forest?
Are you telling me man used the environment to his advantage? I am shocked.
You didn’t build that!
Agenda 21.....
Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
There’s a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let’s knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say ‘save the rainforest’, but what do you know?
You’ve never been to the rainforest before!
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Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There’ll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
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Each year, the Rainforest is responsible for over three thousand deaths from accidents, attacks or illnesses.
There are over seven hundred things in the Rainforest that cause cancer.
Join the fight now and help stop the Rainforest before it’s too late.
-Getting Gay With Kids (South Park)
I read a book called The Lost City Z which tells of explorers from the 19th century who found evidence of roads and water systems, etc. Some satellite images have confirmed this from what I understand. The problem is the jungle very quickly reclaims structures and other evidence.
An interesting side article from the main one you posted:
“A genetic study is threatening to transform theories about who the first people to inhabit the Amazon really were.
Scientists have found three native tribes living in modern-day Brazil are in fact more closely related to Aborigines in Australia than they are to any other living population.
It suggest that the ancestors of Aborigines from Australasia may have migrated to South America thousands of years ago.
The findings also contradict the common belief that all native peoples in North and South America are descended from one group, known as the First Americans, who migrated across a land bridge over the Bering Strait around 15,000 years ago.
It is not known how the Aborigine ancestors made their way to Brazil, but it is possible they may have come by see or crossed ice to get there”
Terra Del Fuego or preset day nation of Chile may have been where travelers from Australia landed when blown off course.
www.wikipedia.org has a good section on Fuegians and their possible origins.
I have included the godsgravesglyphs as a keyword into this thread.
PING!
Don’t know that 8 million is more than a pimple on the ass, there are 3 billion today.
I’m not convinced there is man made global warming. But a study with 8 million seems pretty worthless.
Studies (which I don’t have available offhand) have indicated that the American South was completely groomed when the Europeans first landed on the continent. In other words, there were forests of tall trees with grasslands and crops underneath them, like a gigantic parkland with no underbrush. This came from regular burnings of the underbrush by the natives, both to clear the brush and regularly remineralize the soil from the ash of the burned brush. In addition, certain pigments needed to create “Mayan Blue” in what is not Mexico can only be traced to the American South, so the Mayans were up there, too. And of course there are many unearthed and still buried mound cities in the American South. All in all, the place was VERY different in the past, than people normally think of it.
Correction: ...in what is NOW Mexico...
The past ain’t what it used to be.
The easiest possibility is that the aboriginals split into two groups, with one going over the Bering Strait and the other going south in Indonesia.
Yes, the Amazon is full of ruins. It’s estimated that most of the jungle used to be farmland. It was only after their civilization collapsed that the rainforest took over. So I guess the answer is that man didn’t make the rainforest. It’s kind of a dumb question.
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