In the heart of the dense Amazonian jungle, researchers are realizing that what was long believed to be an untouched ...

Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air, they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22 ...

It’s tempting to think of ancient Amazonians as lost ... integrating cities with nature instead of conquering it. Their achievements—managing soil, building without destroying, and thriving ...

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile 'dark earth' The rich soil holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries by indigenous practices, a new study suggests Date ...

And though there are Amazonian freshwater dolphin species alive today, they aren’t close kin to that ancient cetacean ... Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In fact, all extant ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area ...

lush Amazonian rainforest. Together, they climb the flattop hill (known as tepui) of Nuevo Tolima. Their destination? A vast, ancient painted wall perched at the very top of the tepui that ...

They found that the ancient Amazonians had a diverse diet that included fish, a range of small to large mammals, as well as reptiles, including turtles, snakes and crocodiles. While fish were ...

Nobody knows how people first cracked the problem, but ancient Amazonians devised a complex, multistep process of detoxification that transforms cassava from inedible to delicious. It begins with ...

“We argue here that people … intentionally modified the ancient environment to make it a better place for human populations.” An aerial photo shows the layout of a Kuikuro village in Brazi ...

open image in gallery Cerro Azul with the location of the rock art panels and the excavation site analysed in this study (University of Exeter) They found that the ancient Amazonians had a diverse ...