Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós

Mongabay
Mar 24, 2022, 9:37 am283 pts
The myth of a “demographic void” in the Amazon and of the “virgin forest” has been systematically debunked by a series of scientific studies showing that the rainforest has a history of human occupation stretching back millennia. Archaeology plays a central role in revealing the historical, cultural and…

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