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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It's called "the Amazon".
I don't think that some of you fully comprehend how truly vast the Amazon basin is. Picture the entire continental United States, but with only a handful of large cities and passable roads. Now picture it mostly covered in an incredibly dense forest canopy, and ringed by some of the tallest mountains in the world.
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It is important to not confuse 'uncontacted' with 'unaware'. This group, presumably, based on the geography of where they live and those formidable looking weapons, is likely a gatherer-hunter type of economic organization. G-H groups traditionally range, out of necessity, over a large area. They would almost certainly have had contact with other groups (war, trade, inter-marriage, etc). Without exception, all 'pre-contact' G-H societies demonstrate the evidence of inter-group trade networks in their material culture, and argueably, in their non-material culture. A good example is pre-contact Plains First Nations objects that are decorated with dentallium shells from the West Coast. I would not at all be surprised to find some evidence of at least incidental contact (via trade) with the 'outside' modern culture in the material culture from this group. These people know that there are other groups, other ways of living out there somewhere.