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by wombatmobile
1609 days ago
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> Most of Amazon jungle was, essentially, a big orchard. What is your understanding of the word "orchard"? What is your understanding of the word "jungle"? > You have a great deal to learn about the prehistory of South American civilization. I am always interested to investigate and learn. Could you link to a source for the estimate of 100 million Amazonian jungle inhabitants? |
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An orchard is a collection of trees cultivated for their product. Their orchards, unlike those we keep, had a mix of different, complementary species. Tribes in the Pacific Northwest, approximately British Columbia today, also farmed trees this way. Those orchards are distinctive in maintaining their characteristic species mix, untended, into the present.
It is hard to say how much of the "modern" avoidance of multi-cropping traces back to biblical injunction. Nowadays people are likely to blame mechanization and difficulty of making machines compatible with such a practice, but that might be a sort of "just-so" story.
You will need to exercise your google-fu to bring up publications, mostly in the last 10 years. I suggest starting with "pre-columbian amazonian civilization".