Circular Worlds: Comparison and Reflections on the Earthen Architecture of Lowland South American Circular Villages

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As a mentor, Tom Dillehay has formed and influenced me and archaeologists from the southern cone of South America on a variety of themes, including the peopling of America, plant domestication, and the arrival of monuments. In particular, Dillehay had a significant impact on how we think about the uses, function, and sociopolitical organization of Uruguay’s mound settlements popularly known as “Cerritos de Indios.” To celebrate his ongoing legacy, here I will present a review and reflections on the diversity of mounded architecture and sociopolitical organization of precolumbian circular villages across lowland South America beginning with the mid-Holocene circular mound villages of SE Uruguay, moving on to Central Brazil, the Upper Xingu, and concluding with the newly discovered circular mound villages of SW Amazonia in Acre state, Brazil.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)   •
• Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay

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Abstract Id(s): 36523.0