A long-standing misconception asserts that Indigenous American civilizations “did not invent the wheel.”
Archaeological evidence challenges this claim.
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Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia - Sylvia Cifuentes, 2025 Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...

New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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