Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there. But for scientists, the work can also uncover clues to the region’s past long before Europeans arrived to reshape it.
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Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there. But for scientists, the work can also uncover clues to the region’s past long before Europeans arrived to reshape it.