Saladero, Barrancas, and Lower Orinoco contexts
Saladero / Barrancas material contexts (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)
Lower Orinoco materials allow investigation of ceramics, food residues and changing chronologies. Collection history and direct dating matter before pottery similarities become claims about migration or identity.
Comunidades, paisajes y evidencias
Ríos, bosques, humedales y conexiones
The lower river connects delta, coastal and inland settings. The public town point does not locate sensitive deposits or define cultural borders.
Organización política y escala comunitaria
Material variation does not identify one Lower Orinoco government, ethnic capital or fixed regional territory.
Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna
Older collections and newer analytical methods can revise chronology. A conference paper or program is not final consensus, a complete excavation record or proof of community consent.
The author-shared paper reports work on collections from 1950 and 1955 excavations and later sampling.
The Smithsonian record preserves a collecting note; these objects cannot be treated as intact excavated layers.
The Leiden program documents work on Lower Orinoco ceramic collections, not a settled ethnic classification.
Una cronología breve y documentada
Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.
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Changing material practices
The paper distinguishes several ceramic complexes without identifying them as biological populations.
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Objects and accession
The Smithsonian record notes flood-washed collecting context and a 1951 accession, not dates of ancient manufacture.
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New analytical results presented
The conference research combines AMS, residues, petrography and sediment evidence with explicit scope.
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Petrographic comparison
The meeting program records a research topic, not a completed historical reconstruction.
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
A ceramic series and a living people are different categories.
Collected objects can lose the stratigraphic information needed for strong chronological claims.
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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página
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
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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S2
Barrancos-Style Adornos: Saladero site record
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History · Public object metadata, imagery excluded; collecting history limits archaeological context · Collection record modified 2015-03-24
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S3
Ceramic Petrology Group Annual Meeting: research program
Leiden University · Conference research program, not a completed excavation report · Program accessed 2026-10-20
Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026