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The signs of the ancient indigenous civilization that inhabited part of the Brazilian Amazon, in today's state of Acre, have now almost completely disappeared.Priceless archaeological finds, such as ancient earthwork structures and geoglyphs traced on the ground, have been erased by the expansion of the agri-food industry.The latter, taking advantage of the lack of public protection, has replaced these ancient signs with intensive soy plantations.An even more mocking situation if we consider that it was precisely agricultural deforestation that revealed these finds hidden by the forest in the 1970s.Second an investigation published by Bloomberg, in recent years at least nine of the most important archaeological sites of the area, some extending over six square kilometers, were destroyed.This has erased much of the traces of a civilization that developed about two thousand years ago and thrived for a millennium, a period of duration similar to that of ancient Greece. Geoglyphs are evide...