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When the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana returned from his exploration of the Amazon River four centuries ago, he told of a startling jungle encounter with a race of heroic women warriors. Like the Amazons of Greek mythology, whose name was subsequently given to the great waterway, the jungle women were fierce hunters and fighters. They mated with males captured from neighboring tribes, disposed of their male babies and reared their female offspring in their own martial image. Lacking any other evidence, most experts have long thought that Orellana's tales were fanciful. Now, as a result...
...evidence of an Amazon civilization was found last spring by Jesco von Puttkamer, a German ethnologist and photographer who was studying and photographing the Galeras Indians, a primitive people who live in the largely unexplored rain forests of Brazil's Rondonia territory. After Von Puttkamer had befriended the tribesmen and learned their language, they led him to three secret caves decorated with mysterious markings. Recognizing the possible significance of the site, Von Puttkamer decided to call in expert help: Anthropologist Altair Sales of the Catholic University of Goiás. After exploring the caverns and questioning the Indians about...
...uncertainty over the political future, has created an almost fatalistic despondency among many Japanese. Early in September the feeling was heightened by a curious natural phenomenon. Off the Philippines there originates an ocean current that the Japanese call Kuroshio (the black current). Carrying a water volume of 500 Amazon Rivers north and east along Japan's mountainous Pacific coast, Kuroshio has served for eons as the conveyor belt for a wealth of marine resources. But last month the black current brought mostly trouble. For reasons still not explained, Kuroshio began running three feet higher than usual, flooding settlements all along...
Recently, 84 Brazilian social scientists and historians signed a protest scoring the government's intention to force the Amazon tribes out of the way of the vast redevelopment program and onto reservations. Many of the tribes that the government plans to move into reservations, the scientists charged, are hostile to each other. This, plus further contact with civilization, says the International Red Cross, is likely to be the death knell for Brazil's entire Indian population within 20 to 30 years...
...ecology of the region. Scientists have worried about the effect upon world climate when the entire rain forest is cut. According to present development plans, that will probably be an accomplished fact by the middle of the next century. Another drawback is that the topsoil of the Amazon region is thin, and the jungle, contrary to popular belief, does not reclaim cleared land that has been depleted. Unless modern techniques of crop rotation and fertilization are used -techniques few of the impoverished colonists know-nutrients could be washed away a few years after the land is cleared, turning it into...