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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?

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People have been living near rainforests for tens of thousands of years,

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but most available evidence has intense use of forest resources starting just 10,000 years ago.

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So scientists thought that the dense, tropical forests were so hard to navigate and find food in that humans would have mainly depended on open plains nearby.

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But some researchers had doubts.

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Modern forest foragers do just fine in the rainforest.

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And some evidence in Africa pointed to humans in rainforests well before the 10,000 year mark.

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Now there's hard evidence, out of Sri Lanka, that people roamed and dined on rainforest offerings at least 10,000 years earlier than we'd thought.

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The finding is in the journal Science.

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Researchers measured carbon and oxygen isotopes in the remains of 26 humans found in the Sri Lankan rainforest.

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The bodies were some 20,000 years old.

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Isotope signatures differ for plants that live beneath the closed rainforest canopy than for plants from the open plains.

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Any animals that eat those plants then also carry those forest isotopes,

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as did the remains, showing that these humans subsisted on tropical forest vegetation.

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The findings show that humans have been taking advantage of rainforests for at least 20 millennia.

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Whether our accelerated resource extraction will allow any substantial rainforests to exist even one thousand years from now is a very open question.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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