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Engineered waterways helped Ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

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It seems extraordinary to me that in the past ~decade the idea of Amazonia being this primordial rainforest has been demolished. I'm now curious whether there's any trace of this in the ethnology and folklore of the native people there? Any oral histories about the downfall of civilization? No one would have been expecting it before, so it seems like it could have been overlooked.