Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
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Re: Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
#2Do these articles ever link to a comprehensive gallery of photos? Or are those selectively published?
Re: Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
#3Engravings that are 2,000 years old: so the river was (at least) this low without the current climate change, no?
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#4Engravings that are 2,000 years old: so the river was (at least) this low without the current climate change, no?
Or it changed path, which is not terribly unusual.
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#5Engravings that are 2,000 years old: so the river was (at least) this low without the current climate change, no?
Rivers change course all of the time for reasons unrelated to climate change. It’s entirely likely that the Amazon was some distance from this site 2,000 years ago.
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#6> “inestimable" value in understanding the first people who inhabited the region
It is not from the first people in the area. It is previous people in the area.
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#7Oh to dream of the dreams of these ancient people. What did they think? What did they believe?
Maybe two thousand years in the future someone will read this comment on hacker news and wonder similarly of me
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#8People generally dont know it, but the facts/debate around the sophistication of populations thousands of years ago, and how those vary across geographies, is extremely political. There is generally an unseen hand that dictates the narrative around the distant human past. You can pull the facts together, but the full picture is almost never presented cohesively to the non academic population.
Re: Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
#9People generally dont know it, but the facts/debate around the sophistication of populations thousands of years ago, and how those vary across geographies, is extremely political. There is generally an unseen hand that dictates the narrative around the distant human past. You can pull the facts together, but the full picture is almost never presented cohesively to the non academic population.
How so?
Re: Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
#10Engravings that are 2,000 years old: so the river was (at least) this low without the current climate change, no?
There have been droughts in the past. But a drought in the past would be no proof that climate change is not real.