Must Read: The Truth About Amazon Jungle

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For several years, the Amazon Jungle has been considered to be the wildest and the most dangerous forest of the world. In fact, there have been many novels and films that have been set in the backdrop of the envisioned Amazon Jungle. However, a recent report has transformed the age-old notion, that the Amazon forest is completely wild!

The jungle of Amazon located in South America is not completely wild as the studies have shown. The forest is considered to be somewhat civilized. The native groups of the jungle have done a lot of plant cultivation that has shaped the landscape of the forest about eight thousand years ago.There are definite proofs that the ancient people have planted trees that are still found in the woods and are very much domestic in nature. There are about twenty different kinds of fruit and nut trees that still occupy a large portion of the forests of Amazon. Also different varieties of trees those are entirely domestic in nature that keeps on increasing day by day in and around the archaeological sites of the Amazon jungle that have been previously discovered, revealed Science News.

The domesticated trees are the proofs of the past inhabitants of the Amazon jungle. These trees have kept the ancient heritage of Amazon still living. The Southwestern and the eastern parts of the forests of Amazon are found to have the greatest numbers and diversity of the species of plants that are domesticated. A research team has discovered the existence of domesticated Brazilian nut trees which are the prime resources for the inhabitants in the recent times. In the last three hundred years, the modern inhabitants of the Amazon jungle may have helped to spread some of the species of trees and plants that are domestic in nature.

As per Breaking 100 News, the voyagers of the seventeenth century from Spain and Portugal has established the plantations of the cacao trees in the southwestern parts of the forests of Amazon that exploited the cacao trees that were previously cultivated by the local communities living there.

In a nutshell, the Amazon jungle is not completely wild but domestic to a great extent by the presence of several species of domestic plants and tree!