ANTH 100A Lecture 7: Anthro 7
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Whole idea of amazon women warriors were based on a myth from ancient times; Amazon was the home of tens of millions of people. Green hell: impossibility in amazon vs the idea that the amazon is an ecological eden. Forest was impossible to live in unless you were adapted in a small tribe like the. Slash and burn agriculture in order to grow food with nutrient layer to help fertilize crops, one needs to cut and burn any vegetation rst. We believe it"s a consequence in the arrival of steel tools. That alone, just tolerated this technology and method because the numbers were so low of the population but the mass land was so large. Botanists studied in the forest and found teda preta : rich brown soil that was clearly from human origin. We"ve been looking at the amazon with dark lters.
