Landscape Domestication during the Middle Holocene in the Tropics: new data from Southwestern Amazonia

Author(s): Eduardo Neves

Year: 2017

Summary

There is good archaeological evidence that the Amazon basin was densely populated during the 2,000 years prior to the beginning of European colonization and that these populations promoted important landscape transformations. However, not much is known about patterns of landscape transformation during the Middle Holocene. This paper brings such data based on ongoing research on two archaeological sites in Southwestern Amazonia: Monte Castelo, a fluvial shellmound and Teotonio, an open air deeply stratified site.

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Landscape Domestication during the Middle Holocene in the Tropics: new data from Southwestern Amazonia. Eduardo Neves. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 429223)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 13221