Surviving Traditions: Pottery with Freshwater Tree Sponge Spicules (Cauixí) in the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltation of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia
Author(s): Carla Jaimes Betancourt
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Andean and Amazonian Ceramics: Advances in Technological Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The ethnic and linguistic diversity of the southwestern Amazon is one of the greatest in the world. This diversity is reflected in settlement patterns, types of monuments, spatial planning and use, cultivation techniques, and also in ceramic production. From AD 400 to the present, numerous ethnic groups of the Llanos de Moxos have produced a great variety of ceramic artifacts in which diverse pottery traditions have prevailed, changed, or innovated over time. This paper will present archaeological and ethnographic studies on the elaboration of ceramics with spicules of freshwater tree sponge (*cauixí*) in the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltation of Los Llanos de Moxos, Beni, Bolivia.
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Surviving Traditions: Pottery with Freshwater Tree Sponge Spicules (Cauixí) in the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltation of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia. Carla Jaimes Betancourt. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473224)
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Keywords
General
Archaeology
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Cauixí
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Ceramics
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Ethnography
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Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology
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Material Culture and Technology
Geographic Keywords
South America: Amazonia and Orinoco Basin
Spatial Coverage
min long: -81.914; min lat: -18.146 ; max long: -31.421; max lat: 11.781 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36543.0