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From today’s news page.

Another sacred cow is butchered.

“this wasn't just a pristine forest with isolated nomadic tribes”


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... orest.html

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations- ... 140004006X


Good reading!

Minimalist wrote:http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations- ... 140004006X


Good reading!

One of the better pre-Columbus books.

kbs2244 wrote:From today’s news page.

Another sacred cow is butchered.

“this wasn't just a pristine forest with isolated nomadic tribes”


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... orest.html

Angkor Wat revisited. Squared.

kbs2244 wrote:From today’s news page.

Another sacred cow is butchered.

“this wasn't just a pristine forest with isolated nomadic tribes”


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... orest.html

Note that there's jungle and there's jungle-this is about Upland Jungle (if I'm reading this correctly) - Lowland Jungle also has traces

kbs2244 wrote:From today’s news page.

Another sacred cow is butchered.

“this wasn't just a pristine forest with isolated nomadic tribes”


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... orest.html

This is a nice day for archaeologists and cultural anthropologists. Imagine the discoveries that lie ahead as we learn who lived there, how they lived, and what happened to them.

See John Hoope's site. Major early cultures on the lower Amazon appear to have been burnt off the face of the Earth in the Rio Cuarto impacts.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

Tried to find it but can't.

National Geographic piece claims it isn't one -- the wind did it. (!)

uniface wrote: National Geographic piece claims it isn't one -- the wind did it. (!)

Not impacts...?

uniface wrote:Tried to find it but can't.

National Geographic piece claims it isn't one -- the wind did it. (!)

The "debate" over the Rio Cuarto impacts is covered in extenso in my book.

Which is either en route, or will be shortly

uniface wrote:Which is either en route, or will be shortly

enroute. Merry Christmas, and get the bright reading light ready.

I couldn’t find my copy to double check,
but I believe in 1491 he refers to the logs of early Spanish ships sailing up the Amazon seeing basically continuous settlements along both banks and on the islands.

They were puzzled as to why they were up on stilts until they witnessed the river at flood stage.

I do not know how far up river the Spanish went.
This story is about the highlands.

But if the disease followed the same spreading format as in NA these sites would have been wiped out within years of the Spanish arrival.

Now that I think about it the book might of been Guns, Germs and Steel.