What’s that mound? Answers from interdisciplinary approach

Summary

Modern archaeology must diversify its scientific approaches. First, it is essential to get various viewpoints and different scales to understand better the artifact. Moreover, the interdisciplinary methodology improves considerably the interpretation. The Amazonian raised fields study is a good example of such multiple scientific approaches. While raised field agriculture is no longer widely practiced today, it was quite widespread in the past. These structures are frequently found on the coast of the Guianas, the remnants of a technique widely used during the pre-Columbian period. The interdisciplinary research recently conducted on these structures revealed many surprising aspects of such intensive agriculture. Only the multiplicity of expertise completed successfully to a general understanding of these ecofacts. The Guianas coast has a long history of human impact and the actual landscape partially results of a millenary cultural action.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Landscapes of Production: Recent Research on the Archaeology of Field and Irrigation Systems

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Spatial Coverage