Human remains 10,000 years ago at Amazon

The ruins of a 10,000 year old man have been found in Bolivia and become the oldest archaeological site in the Amazon region.

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Swiss archaeologists have discovered vestiges traces after analyzing the islands found in the Amazon forest. Just watching the soil tissue, scientists can show the history of the area and the activities of the ancient people.

In this study, the authors from the University of Bern found 3 piles of residual seashells of people in the pre-Holocene period, about 10,400 years ago. Soil samples from these three mounds revealed the formation of shells, animal bones and coal. The radioactive carbon analysis of the relics shows that humans once settled in the Amazon Bolivian regions during the pre-Holocene period, shells and other artifacts formed mounds over a period of 6,000 years after their user.

This finding is surprising to experts because it was previously thought that these areas were rarely resided by communities due to poor environmental conditions.

Daily Mail page quoted Professor Umberto Lombardo of Bern University: "We have discovered the oldest archaeological site in western and southern Amazon. These sites allow us to reproduce the interaction between people and the environment 10,000 years ago in the Bolivian region of the Amazon region ".