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Published online 19 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030915-12
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Amazonia 1492: pristine forest or cultural parkland?
Excavations and maps confirm forest housed advanced society.
The Amazon was densely populated before Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, confirms new evidence unearthed in Brazil1. The finds lay to rest the notion that the region was pristine forest when the explorer landed in 1492.
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