Excavations show hunter-gatherers lived in the Amazon more than 10,000 years ago
Foragers may have laid the groundwork for farming’s ascent thousands of years later
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FORAGERS ARISE Human skeletons such as this one, recovered from graves in the southwestern Amazon, contribute to evidence that hunter-gatherers lived in the area from around 10,600 to 4,000 years ago.
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