{"id":692430,"date":"2021-06-07T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692430"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:00:06","slug":"this-forest-has-stayed-wild-for-5000-years-we-can-tell-because-of-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692430","title":{"rendered":"This forest has stayed wild for 5,000 years\u2014we can tell because of the soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes think of the Amazon rainforest as unaltered by humans, a peek into the planet&#8217;s past. In recent years, scientists have learned that many parts of the Amazon aren&#8217;t untouched at all\u2014they&#8217;ve been cultivated by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years, and mere centuries ago were the sites of cities and farmland. But that&#8217;s not the case everywhere. In a new study in PNAS, researchers determined that a rainforest in the Putumayo region of Peru has been home to relatively unaltered forest for 5,000 years, meaning that the people who have lived there found a long-term way to coexist with nature\u2014and the evidence is in microscopic bits of silica and charcoal in the soil.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-forest-wild-yearswe-soil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">This forest has stayed wild for 5,000 years\u2014we can tell because of the soil<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes think of the Amazon rainforest as unaltered by humans, a peek into the planet&#8217;s past. In recent years, scientists have learned that many parts of the Amazon aren&#8217;t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}