This article underscores one of the most interesting points in the book, that was applicable throughout the Americas, but was most startling in regard to the Am

This article underscores one of the most interesting points in the book, that was applicable throughout the Americas, but was most startling in regard to the Amazon basin. It was that there was really no "untouched", virginal wilderness in the New World. Even the Amazon ecosystem was stewarded by the people that lived there.