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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear
Amazonian wilderness buzzed with human activity until 500 years ago, when Europeans turned up with weapons and diseases, says radical rethink of rainforest history.
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Evidence of this has been known for years but the old boy network of science, who have built careers on obsolete theories that were wrong or incomplete in the first place, is a greater enemy of new knowledge and progress than the worst Arkansas redneck.