A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
I n northern Bolivia, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, lies a savannah called the Llanos de Moxos. This is the stamping-ground of Umberto Lombardo, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large human population before Europeans arrived. Dr Lombardo is head of a team proving them wrong.
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That probably assisted their evolutionary diversification
Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen
It is better than freezing them to death
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/01/29/a-sophisticated-civilisation-once-flourished-in-the-amazon-basin
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