Researchers combine "terra preta" finds with statistics to map early Amazonian population centers
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.S. and Brazil has created a virtual map of possible ancient human population centers in the Amazonian jungle by using statistical methods that connect modern terra preta areas. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the team describes how they applied archeological site information with statistics to come up with a way to guess where other early population sites might be.