© Umberto Lombardo
Posted on 04/17/2020 9:05:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An international team found that during this period, crops were being cultivated in a remote location in what is now northern Bolivia.
The scientists believe that the humans who lived here were planting squash, cassava and maize.
The inhabitants also created thousands of artificial islands in the forest.
The end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, saw a sustained rise in global temperatures... Researchers have previously unearthed evidence that crops were domesticated at four important locations around the world.
So China saw the cultivation of rice, while in the Middle East it was grains, in Central America and Mexico it was maize, while potatoes and quinoa emerged in the Andes.
Now scientists say that the Llanos de Moxos region of southwestern Amazonia should be seen as a fifth key region.
The area is a savannah but is dotted with raised areas of land now covered with trees...
The area floods for part of the year but these "forest islands" remain above the waters...
The researchers examined some 30 of these islands for evidence of crop planting.
They discovered tiny fragments of silica called phytoliths, described as tiny pieces of glass that form inside the cells of plants...
The researchers were able to identify evidence of manioc (cassava, yuca) that were grown 10,350 years ago. Squash appears 10,250 years ago, and maize more recently - just 6,850 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“...The end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, saw a sustained rise in global temperatures....” Stoopid flintstone SUVs.
The ecotosser will NOT like the alternative to some minor warming. At all.
Humans are inventive and industrious.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about people.
So those were man-made? Interesting!
There were civilizations LONG before 10,000 years ago in S.A.
Look at google maps, and zoom in. You can clearly see the former waterways that were created all over the southern part of the continent.
They look very ancient, but are clearly visible- and do not look natural.
Look for the “Eye of Africa’ - ANOTHER structure that scientists cannot explain as anything other than man-made, and if you zoom out it looks as if the whole area was washed away in a flood. (Atlantis?)
“The inhabitants also created thousands of artificial islands in the forest.”
Five Feet High And Risin
https://youtu.be/TJUdwum5jAY
Sounds like a good location for “Naked and Afraid” to be shot.
Amazonia would be an attractive place to settle during the Younger Dryas. Head South, young man!
See Charles Mann’s book “1491.”
Yes. North America was pretty much a mess.
I find it interesting how many scholars resist the concept that Man was all over Asia, Europe, and Africa...but none of them were smart enough to get to North America until the “land bridge” of the ice age?
Not sure that makes sense anymore?
My Choctaw grandmother would always dispute the land-bridge idea. “We’re not Chinamen!” she’d say.
This article is interesting in that it discusses a different and inventive response to the environment. I’s not surprising that this happens and, of course, people were far more widely dispersed in prehistory than academics maintained.
Another good post by Sunken Civ.
#9 It is kinda creepy when the ‘eye’ blinks!
Your grandmother was funny.
“You call it ‘corn’, but we call it, ‘maze’”
Are these time lines credible? I always thought the people of Asia could have come as late as 2000 BC over the land bridge and then massed into 50 million or so by the time Cortez arrived. Does the 12,000 year time table preclude the land bridge theory?
The Eye of Africa is a natural formation and millions of years old. There’s a YouTube nitwit who pushes the BS about it being Plato’s Atlantis. Watch his face, no blink rate, crazed stare all the time, unsupported claims and assertions, zero evidence.
I think we give the credit we should to the ability of stone age people to be mobile. The Polynesians an essentially stone age technology society conquered the Pacific. I would not be surprised to find that the Solutrean hypothesis (some settlement from late Ice Age Europe) does have merit. Though right now the current thinking is against. I guess the biggest problem for it is lack of European flavor DNA.
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