> If you mean that non-Andean populations were never
> highly developed, that is not the case. There were
> very dense populations in the Amazon River valley, but
> these collapsed a hundred years or so before Europeans
> made it that far, I believe.
A fun book that summarizes this claim for the general reader is _1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus_ by Charles C. Mann. I can't make scientific judgments about the book, but right or wrong, there are some interesting ideas in the Amazon chapter about what large-scale jungle agriculture looked like. It ought to be applicable somewhere in Glorantha.
Rob Helm Received on Mon 07 May 2007 - 14:32:43 EEST
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