Episode 137 - Prepare to Be Amaz(on)ed

We haven’t covered much archaeology from the Amazon Basin on the show, but this week, that changes! Instead of being the primitive groups early European explorers reported on, people lived in the Amazon Basin region for thousands of years by adapting to their landscape as well as modifying their environment to suit their needs! Somehow, we suspect that you, listeners, are not shocked.

• Amazon People (World Wildlife Fund)

• People of the Amazon (Ascent of the Amazon)

• Who Lives in the Amazon? (Amazon Aid Foundation)

• The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Impacts on the Amazon (Harvard University)

• The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon (Nature Plants)

• Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like clock faces (LiveScience)

• Ancient farmers transformed Amazon and left an enduring legacy on the rainforest (ScienceDaily)

• Archaeologists Discover Some of the Amazon’s Oldest Human Burials (Smithsonian)

• Persistent Early to Middle Holocene tropical foraging in southwestern Amazonia (Science Advances)

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