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Amazonian Indians More Advanced Than We Knew

(June 25) -- For decades, archaeologists thought of the Amazonian Indians as lowly hunter-gatherers who inhabited widely scattered villages and barely eked out a living in the harsh landscape. Now that image is collapsing. In a study to be published later this summer, scientists detail an ancient system of monumental...

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The Indigenous peoples in Brazil () comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500. Unlike Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the Portuguese, most notably Vasco da Gama, had already reached India via the Indian Ocean route when they reached Brazil.

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