地球上没有任何地方的生态变化能像安第斯山脉的雪线和亚马逊热带雨林之间那样迅速和极端。正因为如此，研究南美洲人类历史的不同学科倾向于将这两个大的亚区视为相互独立的独立区域。然而，人们一再对这种做法提出反对意见，警告不要在安第斯山脉和亚马逊河流域的人民和社会之间存在明显的联系和过渡时，想象它们之间的鸿沟过于尖锐。
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Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration (EPUB)
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of that, the different disciplines that research the human past in South America have tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be studied independently of each other. Objections to that approach have repeatedly been raised, however, warning against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia when there are clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them.
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