Amazon contained large population centres prior to Europeans
Posted On: Aug 16th, 2015 at 18:47
Brazil
This article is as important as any because it is yet another piece of evidence that removes the pre-conceived ideas we have about our past.
In this case, the idea that the Amazon Jungle was an untouched and wild environment until the arrival of the land-grabbing Europeans is being unequivocally removed by hard evidence.
It is now thought that large swathes of the Amazon had previously been deforested and inhabited by the native Americans, and a population of up to 50 million may have been reached before the Spanish brought with them diseases like smallpox which decimated the local populations of Central and South America.
Some of the remains discovered by LiDar suggest many of these populated areas may be up to 3,000 years old.
What this report basically presents to us is yet another piece of evidence that suggests human activity is much older than we perceive it to be in our current understanding… and that evidence is increasing by the day.
