Ancient Amazonians lived sustainably – and this matters for conservation today
April 24, 2018 by Timothy Baker, Ian Lawson, Katherine Roucoux And Thomas Kelly, The Conversation
Our colleague, the archaeologist Santiago Rivas, recently made a remarkable discovery. On a small plateau above the outskirts of Iquitos, a town in the northern Peruvian Amazon, he found a layer in the soil which contained small pieces of ceramic pottery, that were around 1,800-years-old. Digging deeper, he found another layer of soil, this time containing pottery that was about 2,500 years old.
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https://phys.org/news/2018-04-ancient-amazonians-sustainably-today.html#jCp
