10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures Could Be Hidden beneath Amazon Rain Forest
Meghan Bartelsscientificamerican.com
10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures Could Be Hidden beneath Amazon Rain Forest
Yet as in the archives, “new evidentiary technologies” and techniques — including remote sensing and forensic fossil seed analysis — are revealing the forest’s topographically hidden, and politically erased, scripts and structures; they’re demonstrating how, in the words of ecologist William Balée, the forest constitutes a “vast archaeological... See more
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