Amazon Basin Civilization

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:35 pm

I debated on putting this on the Pedra Furada thread.
But since it is so far North, and this covers the major part of the Amazon Basin, most of it further South and West, I am putting it on it’s own.

Some estimates of the basins population are as high as 10,000,000
Reduced by Smallpox to less than 20,000 is less than 100 years.
And then all evidence overgrown.

A chapter about early civilization and cultivation in the Amazon Basin.

http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/eweh/amazonia.pdf

The whole 3 book Encyclopedia is on my “when I get rich” list to buy.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:10 pm

kb, do you recall something a while back about artificial waterways in the Amazon basin?

I can't quite recollect the details.

Sam Salmon · Post by **Sam Salmon** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:48 pm

Minimalist wrote:....do you recall something a while back about artificial waterways in the Amazon basin?....

IIRC that was what is today the Bolivian Amazon (called the Beni).

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/baures/Mann2.html

General canal info here http://kyapa.tripod.com/agengineering/d ... ainage.htm scroll down for the Beni.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:30 pm

Good posts Sam;
Yeah, both canals and causeways
When seasonal waterfall is measured in 100’s of inches, followed by drought, water management can become important.