Meggers argued that agriculture dep

Meggers argued that agriculture depends on extracting nutrients from soils into edible crops, so premodern societies in Amazonia could never grow large because underlying soils are impoverished. In Meggers’ view the population size that a culture could reach depended upon the agricultural potential of its environment. Meggers accepted that fish and turtle resources of the Amazon made possible the long riverside villages the explorer Orellana described in 1542, but she dismissed as exaggerated Carvajal’s estimates of tens of thousands of people in those settlements, and she was sure those settlements did not have inland counterparts. Supporting this point, the Omagua, a riverbank people and one of the greatest chiefdoms observed by Carvajal as a member of Orellana’s expedition, regarded hinterland forests as unpopulated wilderness.

結果 (繁體中文) 1:

梅認為農業取決於提取營養素從土壤到食用作物，所以在亞馬遜河流域前的現代社會不可能長大因為底層土壤貧窮。梅的視圖中，文化可以達到人口大小取決於其環境的農業潛力。梅接受魚和海龜資源的亞馬遜作出可能的長河邊的村莊奧雷利亞納資源管理器中描述于 1542 年，但她解雇為數以萬計的人在這些定居點，誇張的卡瓦哈爾估計和她確信這些定居點沒有內陸同行。Omagua，河岸人和觀察由卡瓦哈爾 · 奧雷利亞納的探險隊的成員作為最大酋長之一支援這一點，腹地森林視為無人居住的曠野。

結果 (繁體中文) 2:

梅格斯認為，農業依賴於從土壤中提取營養物質轉化為糧食作物，是因為底層土壤貧困亞馬遜前現代社會不可能會變大。在梅格斯'查看文化可以達到在它的環境的農業潛力取決於人口規模。梅格斯接受亞馬遜的魚和龜資源成為可能的長河邊村莊奧雷利亞納1542年描述的探險家，但她斥為人在這些定居點數以萬計的誇張卡瓦哈爾的估計，她確信這些定居點沒有內陸同行。支持這一點上，Omagua，河岸人民和卡瓦哈爾觀察奧雷利亞納的探險隊的成員最大的酋長之一，算是腹地森林是無人居住的荒野。