Casarabe, Cotoca, and Landívar settlement networks
Cotoca / Landívar (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)
Monumental platforms, causeways and canals support study of low-density settlement networks in a seasonal landscape. Food and water-management interpretations require the evidence and scale of each study.
Communities, landscapes, and the evidence
Rivers, forests, wetlands, and connections
Cotoca and Landívar are distinct centers in the savanna-forest mosaic. Trinidad is an orientation rather than a location for excavation or burial features.
Political organization and community scale
Differentiated centers and connecting infrastructure support political interpretations without revealing every institution or resident's allegiance.
Colonial transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
New survey and food-production research revise earlier models. Results from a particular sampled system cannot describe every Moxos community or all Amazonian diets.
The 2022 study identifies Cotoca and Landívar within a differentiated settlement system, not as one combined city.
The 2025 study interprets evidence for maize cultivation in its sampled landscape, not every household's entire diet.
DAI records excavation and later mapping phases; mapped extent is not a sovereignty or ethnic boundary.
A concise, sourced timeline
These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.
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Casarabe-associated contexts
This broad classification contains changes; infrastructure cannot make all settlements equally old.
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Project excavations
DAI documents investigations in regional platform settlements before later lidar campaigns.
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Food-production interpretation
A landscape study links evidence to maize production while retaining its specific geographical scope.
Food, craft, language, labor, and belief
Languages named in this profile
- The registered evidence does not securely establish every resident's spoken language; no language is assigned from material style alone.
Language family: No secure assignment from this evidence
Low-density urbanism is not a modern city template.
Water works and household labor belong within political history.
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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
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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S2
Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia
Nature 639, 119-123 · Original landscape and food-production study; site scope does not cover all Amazonia · 2025
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Llanos de Mojos
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · Project record accessed 2026-10-20
Editorial review: October 20, 2026