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Anyone curious about how the Amazon evolved as a worked landscape (like the grain fields of Europe), should read Charles C Mann's books 1491 and 1493. What the
by vonnik 6y ago
Anyone curious about how the Amazon evolved as a worked landscape (like the grain fields of Europe), should read Charles C Mann's books 1491 and 1493. What the developed world sees as an untouched wilderness threatened by development was actually, in many places, a place where large indigenous communities found ways to make the jungle bear more life-sustaining food ... while still appearing to be a jungle.
https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...
- e40 6y agoI read a book on Percy Harrison Fawcett (forget the name) and it always amazed me how hard it was for people to survive there. And by survive I mean just to take enough sustenance to keep going. It looks lush, but there's little there for humans (who are unfamiliar) to eat, and what there is to eat is hard to get or catch.
- blacksmith_tb 6y agoChannel 4 is in the middle of a series on recent archaeology in the Amazon[1], free to stream if you're in the UK, for the rest of us there's always torrents... 1: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jungle-mystery-lost-kingdoms-of-the-amazon https://www.channel4.com/programmes/jungle-mystery-lost-king...