The Amazon
jungle may have actually
been the handiwork of
humans rather than a natural
feature. This startling find is
the result of a recent exploration of a cave - Caverna
da Pedra Pintada - in
Monte Alegre in the north
bank of the Amazon in
Brazil, which has revealed
that a prehistoric human
society must have existed in
these areas some 11,000 years
ago. Evidence of fire, burnt
food remains, stone tools,
and sandstone walls covered
with handprints, paintings of
human and animal figures,
support the discovery.
Researchers including Anna
Roosevelt from the Field
Museum in Chicago believe
that these people may even
have predated the Clovis
people, thought to have been
the first South American
colonisers.
The Amazon rainforests
with their clusters of
like cashews, trees M&A brazil nuts and
palms may have
been a result of
some carefully planned human activity,
feel the researchers.
The discovery also
means that the
Amazon, previously
thought to be an
unfriendly territory
for human occupation, could harbour
civilisation which
existed for a large
period of time.
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