Acre earthworks and Fazenda Colorada contexts
Fazenda Colorada / Acre geoglyph contexts (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)
Geometric enclosures and surrounding soils allow research on construction and changing forest practices. Evidence for earlier land use must be distinguished from the age and purpose of particular earthworks.
Comunidades, paisajes y evidencias
Ríos, bosques, humedales y conexiones
Acre's terra firme landscapes differ from floodplain settings. Rio Branco is an institutional-city orientation, not a private-property or sacred-site pin.
Organización política y escala comunitaria
Coordinated work is visible; common geometry does not establish one centralized Acre nation or the same function at every enclosure.
Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna
Deforestation exposes and threatens archaeological evidence. An exposed earthwork is not a collecting opportunity or proof of a previously empty forest.
The project dates Fazenda Colorada broadly to the first through early fifteenth centuries CE; older soil evidence is separate.
The 2020 study evaluates human activity and climate interpretations rather than treating every charcoal sample as drought.
The 2017 team account cautions against equating ancient land management with modern extensive forest clearance.
Una cronología breve y documentada
Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.
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Land use before the enclosures
Environmental evidence can predate monumental construction and cannot date every earthwork.
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Fazenda Colorada sequence
The project overview gives a broad construction history, not simultaneous use of all Acre sites.
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Forest research communicated
The team examines management practices and distinguishes them from recent deforestation.
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Land-use interpretation published
The archaeological study presents revisable environmental interpretations and dating evidence.
Alimentación, artesanía, lengua, trabajo y creencias
Idiomas mencionados en este perfil
- The registered evidence does not securely establish every resident's spoken language; no language is assigned from material style alone.
Familia lingüística: No secure assignment from this evidence
Forest management can occur without total clearance.
Observation, inference and regional extrapolation need separate labels.
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Prefer Indigenous and community-linked institutions, national heritage authorities, accountable archaeological projects, original studies and institutional collections documentation. Source titles, publishers, dates and stable links identify the evidence. Distinguish a conference abstract, bibliographic record, field study, scholarly synthesis, heritage proposal and completed interpretation. Attribute written and oral accounts by composition date, genre, language, audience, transmission and viewpoint.
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C1
Orinoquia: The Archaeology of the Orinoco River Basin
Journal of World Prehistory 16, author-shared scholarly synthesis · Attributed scholarly synthesis; models are not direct observations of all communities · 2002
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C2
Chiribiquete National Park: The Maloca of the Jaguar
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Institutional heritage record; individual panel chronology requires separate evidence · Inscribed 2018; record accessed 2026-10-20
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C3
Nuevos aportes a la arqueología del sitio Saladero, bajo Orinoco, Venezuela
José R. Oliver, UCL, author-shared conference paper · Original conference research; not all interpretations are final consensus · Presented 2013; author record 2014
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C4
A fase Açutuba: um novo complexo cerâmico na Amazônia Central
Arqueología Suramericana 2(1), World Archaeological Congress archive · Original archaeological study in archived journal issue · 2006
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C5
Early and Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in Western Amazonia: The Hidden Shell Middens
PLOS ONE · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2013-08-28
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C6
Paleoindian cave dwellers in the Amazon: research annotation
Library of Congress, Handbook of Latin American Studies · Institutional critical bibliographic annotation, not a new excavation · 1996 study; annotation accessed 2026-10-20
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C7
Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon
Nature 606, 325-328 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2022
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C8
Ecological Modelling and Indigenous Systems of Resource Use: Examples from South Venezuela
Antropológica 55, 51-72, UNAM archive · Original methodological and ethnographic analysis, not a prehistoric social census · 1981
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C9
Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia
PNAS 107, 7823-7828 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2010
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C10
The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery
Scientific Reports · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2018
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C11
Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon
Science Advances 9, eadh8499 · Original collaborative research, including Kuikuro Indigenous Association contributors · 2023
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C12
En riesgo continuo por el ecoturismo: la realidad de las áreas protegidas en el Amazonas
Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia · Protected-area care and access-risk guidance, not visitor permission · 2025-12-12
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C13
Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian · Comparative collections ethics, not site-specific cultural consent · Institutional policy resource accessed 2026-10-20
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S1
Acre Geoglyphs, South-West Amazonia
University of Exeter, PAST project · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · Project record accessed 2026-10-20
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S2
The geoglyph sites of Acre, Brazil: land-use practices and climate change
Antiquity 94, 1538-1556 · Original archaeological and environmental study; early land use is not the age of every earthwork · 2020
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S3
Hundreds of ancient earthworks built in the Amazon
University of Exeter · Institutional field-research communication, no blanket deforestation claim · 2017
Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026