The best indicator that whatever number existed were savages is the simple knowledge that they are almost entirely gone.
So you've been to Brazil and northern Bolivia, spent years there, and also read all of this guy's scientific papers, right?
Wait. They all disappeared due to the white man diseases; all the millions of them with no remnants or traces of libraries to explain how it was all possible. How convenient.
The best indicator that whatever number existed were savages is the simple knowledge that they are almost entirely gone.
This is the most ignorant crap I have ever seen posted on Free Republic. It's one thing to be mistaken, it's quite another to be intentionally stupid and uninformed. You are not merely intentionally ignorant and uninformed, you are PROUD of it!
My advice to you sir, is read a book. Hell, go for broke, read TWO! And not zombie trash like "The Flat Earth" or "The Hollow Earth".
Why not start with "1491"?