Low density urbanism (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Iriarte. Heiko Prumers. Carla Jaimes Betancourt. Mark Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation summarizes archaeological and lidar data from the Casarabe culture (~500-1400 CE) in the Llanos de Mojos savannah and forest mosaic in southwest Amazonia. Lidar revealed a four-tiered settlement system that spread over 4,500 km2 with large extensive...