{"id":146441,"date":"2014-02-08T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146441"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:29:03","slug":"ancient-occupation-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/ancient-occupation-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient occupation of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An area of 154 square kilometers in the Amazon, equivalent to 3.2% of the forest and twice the size of Portugal, may have been occupied by indigenous groups with hundreds of thousands of members for relatively long periods before the arrival of European settlers (<i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/i>, January 2014).\u00a0 This is the area that an international group of researchers, including archaeologist Eduardo G\u00f3es Neves, of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), believes has a type of very fertile soil, called black soil, which can store traces of ancient human occupation.\u00a0 The researchers arrived at this estimate by comparing information from nearly a thousand black soil areas that have already been mapped to studies that did not report this type of soil.\u00a0 When comparing the information, they detected black soil distribution patterns and concluded that the probability of finding them near rivers in the eastern and central Amazon region is greater than in the western Amazon or areas near the Andes.\u00a0 These results could guide research in areas occupied by pre-Columbian populations, which are difficult to identify under the forest trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Area equivalent to twice Portugal may have been occupied by indians","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[201,202],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-anthropology","tag-archaeology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}