Land Use in the Amazon in the Colonial Period

The debate about the relationship between humanity and nature has been extensively developed through archeology for the period before the arrival of Europeans in the Amazon; likewise, this subject has also been the subject of study for ethnohistorians and anthropologists who, in different locations of the greater Amazon region, have studied the multiple relationships between Indigenous societies and the environments they inhabit. This debate, in fact, formed the backbone of research on Amazonian Indigenous peoples throughout the twentieth century, giving rise to conflicting hypotheses about their ability to adapt or transform the tropical landscape. From the most conservative perspectives, the