Transforming the Enchanted Isles

Letter from the Galapagos Islands January/February 2022

Archaeologists uncover the remote archipelago’s forgotten human history
(Courtesy Historical Ecology of the Galapagos Islands Project)
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An 1888 photograph captures some of El Progreso’s plantation workers standing in front of their thatched-roof houses on San Cristóbal. The sprawling fields of Manuel J. Cobos’ hacienda can be seen in the background.(National Archives and Records Administration Albatross Expedition NARA-22-FA-90)

There is perhaps no place on Earth that better symbolizes the majesty of a world unmarred by human encroachment than the Galapagos Islands. The remote archipelago lies along the equator in the ea

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