The Interrelated Establishment of Sedentary Lifestyles in Tropical Lowland South America in the Late Holocene

Summary

The archaeological record of lowland South America shows the widespread establishment of sedentary life styles, associated with marked signs of landscape modification, starting around the mid first millennium BC. Such changes had a large scale, ranging from the lower Orinoco basin in the north all the way to the mouth of the Plata river in the south, albeit with earlier dates towards the north. This paper argues that this process of change needs to be understood from a continental perspective, associated to the establishment of the wet tropical climatic conditions verified today in this area.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• From pollen to pottery: new insights on the interplay of society and environment in South America during the last 2000 years

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