Indigenous Amazonia Populations may have Declined due to Climate Change Before Great Dying
Written by AZoCleantechMay 25 2021
A new study has proposed that the effects of climate change experienced in the Amazon rainforest before the arrival of European settlers after 1492 might have implied that populations of indigenous people were already declining before the Great Dying.
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Researchers investigating charcoal data and fossil pollen collected throughout the Amazon stated that it seems to demonstrate that human management of the rainforest might have peaked close to 1200 AD, before a few sites were abandoned, thus enabling reforestation of such regions.