Human-driven fires have shaped the Amazonian forest for over 10,000 years

August 31, 2026 · 2:40 pm 1 sources

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• Human-driven fires have shaped the Amazonian forest for over 10,000 years
  Phys.org · August 31, 2026 14:40
  New research is dismantling the longstanding myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian pyrogeography, based on 1,361 radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates across 303 sites—including soil charcoal and burned archaeological material—shows that fire in the rainforest is almost…