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BRAZIL.....AMAZONIA

The Amazon is formed by the convergence of three intricate bodies of water. Amazon proper begins high in the geologically young and unstable Andes. Fans of silt laden streams join to begin the river's journey. Further east it is joined by the Negro-Branco from the north and the Madeiro from the south. Many smaller(by comparison only) tributaries deposit their rich soils and sediments into the Great River. The Amazon delivers one fifth of the freshwater entering the world’s oceans annually into the Atlantic. Modern archeologists have generally traveled to the high Andes seeking ancient civilizations in South America. Fortunately, there have been discoveries of ancient civilizations along the Great River spreading from the lowlands at the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes far west. These ancient civilizations were home to many Native American Indians (the term Indian is a misnomer coined by Columbus as he believed this new world to be India, hence Indias and Indians). In spirit and resourcefulness these Pre-Columbian communities rivaled those of the more familiar Olmec, Aztec, Maya and Inca. From the highlands of the Rio Negro-Branco to the lowlands of the Tapajo rivers these localized tribes, such as the Mundurukus, Manaus, Muras and Tapajos, put up fierce resistance against the conquest of the Europeans to tame their homeland during the 1500’s. In the end these communities were extinguished by disease carried from abroad or repression. Today, Brazil is largely a mixture of Africans brought by the Europeans, Indigenous North American Indians and Potugese Europeans. One intriguing area lies at the base of the Amazon.The misty and shrouded island of Marajo spans 15,000 square miles and is rich in history and culture. The great river deposits an abundant and replenishing supply of Amazonian clay which has travelled from as far west as the Andes in Peru. For miles along the basin of the great river descendents of these ancient civilizations craft pottery using the same painstaking attention to detail and style as that of their ancestors.

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