A multiproxy approach to study past human impact on the Lower Amazon, Santarem
Author(s): Jose Iriarte; Denise Schaan Pahl; Shira Maezumi; Salman Khan; Daiana Travassos
Year: 2016
Summary
This presentation summarises the preliminary results of the interdisciplinary research carried out in the context of the ‘Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformation’ project that investigate the nature and scale of past human impact across the Amazon integrating archaeology, archaeobotany, palaeoecology, soil science, botany and remote sensing. We present initial results from the unique region around Santarém city at the confluence of the Tapajós and the Amazon rivers, home to the Tapajós chiefdom (1000-1600AD) that exhibits some of the highest densities of ADE sites in Amazonia, including Terras Pretas and Terras mulatas, and which are located in diverse settings including both floodplain and terra firme locales. These results are compared with other regions of Amazonia and their implications for the current debate on the nature and scale of past human impact in Amazonia are discussed.
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A multiproxy approach to study past human impact on the Lower Amazon, Santarem. Jose Iriarte, Denise Schaan Pahl, Shira Maezumi, Salman Khan, Daiana Travassos. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403248)
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Keywords
General
Amazon
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Archaeology
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Paleoecology
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;