Archaeologists fear Bolsonaro agenda will kill Amazon civilisation research

Brazil's president has cut science funding while opening the region to loggers, miners and farmers - putting priceless evidence of ancient cultures at risk When archaeologists Eduardo Kazuo and Márjorie Lima recently unearthed nine pre-Columbian funerary urns in Tauary - a tiny community in Brazil's Amazon rainforest - their immediate reaction was "a mix of pleasure and desperation".The bulbous vessels - containing human remains and writhing with anthropomorphic painted serpents and monkeys - are the only ones of their kind to be excavated intact. Continue reading...