Building roads can threaten the Amazon. But they may become dig sites that peer into the past

Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there.

But for scientists, it can also provide clues to the region's past long before Europeans arrived to reshape it. (AP Video by Felipe Campos Mello and Eraldo Peres)

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