A Santa Fe Institute researcher wants to test a remote tracking tool that could be used to gather data about isolated South American groups. Anthropologist Marcus J. Hamilton is enlisting the public’s help in raising money for the project through a crowdfunding site called Rocket Hub.
Anthropologists interested in the 100 or so groups in the Amazon Basin that remain isolated from a high tech, fast food world have a dilemma — how to study these ancient cultures without changing them. Yet understanding the groups’ movements and how much land they need for daily survival may be the last chance to preserve these few remaining hunter-gatherer groups, Hamilton said.
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