The Move of Homo Sapiens’ into Tropical Forests
Channel: Latest Thinking
Date: 30/05/2019

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In popular culture as in traditional archaeology, the tropical forest has been assumed to represent an environment inhospitable to humans. In this video, PATRICK ROBERTS challenges this view, demonstrating not only that Homo sapiens moved into tropical forests much earlier than previously thought but also that significant agricultural and urban societies existed in these places in the ancient past. 
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Based in the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, PATRICK ROBERTS is Group Leader of its recently established Stable Isotope Research Group: https://www.shh.mpg.de/179129/patrickroberts

This LT Publication is divided into the following chapters:
0:00 Question
1:56 Method
4:34 Findings
6:17 Relevance
7:48 Outlook