Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people

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Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people
March 27, 2018, University of Exeter
 
Aerial photo of one of the structures at Jacó Sá site. Credit: University of Exeter

Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities speaking varied languages who had an impact on the environment around them.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-amazon-thought-uninhabited-home-million.html#jCp

[Free Vulcan]

Years ago I watched a PBS science show that discussed how the Amazon rainforest is essentially sustained by dust from the Sahara Desert.

Except that 5,000 years ago the Sahara was not a desert.

So is it possible the Amazon wasn't a rainforest, and hence all the population there?

[thackney]

Years ago I watched a PBS science show that discussed how the Amazon rainforest is essentially sustained by dust from the Sahara Desert.

Except that 5,000 years ago the Sahara was not a desert.

So is it possible the Amazon wasn't a rainforest, and hence all the population there?

Amazonian rainforest was created just 2,000 years ago by climate change that wiped out ancient farmers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2685049/Amazonian-rain-forest-just-2-000-years-old-previously-SAVANNAH-tended-farmers-researchers-find.html