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This is a timeline of Amazon history, which dates back at least 11,000 years ago, when humans left indications of their presence in Caverna da Pedra Pintada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Here is a brief timeline of historical events in the Amazon River valley.
According to the document, in 1753, a group of bandeirantes discovered the ruins of an ancient city that contained arches, a statue, and a temple with hieroglyphs. He described the city ruins in great detail without giving its location. [citation needed] Manuscript 512 was written after explorations made in the sertão of the province of Bahia.
The name 'Amazon' is said to arise from a battle Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the tribe. [ 1 ] Orellana described the river as "the river of the Amazons", referring to the mythical Amazons of Asia described by Herodotus (see The Histories [4.110 ...
According to one estimate, some 90% of Amazon history lies undiscovered. But new technologies are bringing to light this ancient past and calling into question what we truly know about this ...
Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11 ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Charles Marie de La Condamine (French: [la kɔ̃damin]; 28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations.
Schultes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 12, 1915.The son of a plumber, [1] he grew up and was educated in East Boston. [3] His interest in South America's rain forests traced back to his childhood: while he was bedridden, his parents read him excerpts of Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and the Andes, by the 19th-century English botanist Richard Spruce. [1]