Guiana coastal raised-field landscapes
Coastal savannas near Kourou (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)
Raised-field research combines archaeology, plants, soils and ecology in seasonally flooded coastal savannas. Constructed surfaces and later ecosystem processes have related but different histories.
Comunidades, paisagens e evidências
Rios, florestas, humedais e conexões
The coastal savannas differ from inland forest and floodplain settings. A town orientation makes no claim about modern sovereignty or ancient territorial ownership.
Organização política e escala comunitária
Coordinated field construction and local production do not identify one Guiana state or the language and identity of every worker.
Transformação colonial, património vivo e recepção moderna
Long-lived earthworks can be maintained by biological processes after cultivation changes. Findings do not authorize modern landscape alteration or decide community rights.
The 2010 study investigates crop evidence and designed field landscapes rather than assuming the savannas were unused.
The study examines ants, termites, roots and other processes after fields were abandoned; a visible mound is not proof of current cultivation.
The 2012 study interprets limited precolonial burning in its study area, not all Amazonian environments.
Uma cronologia breve e documentada
Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.
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Ecological maintenance
Biological processes helped preserve or reshape some earthwork forms; this is not an ancient construction event.
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Interdisciplinary interpretation
The project brings archaeological, botanical, soil and ecological research together without making one model universal.
Alimentação, artesanato, língua, trabalho e crenças
Línguas mencionadas neste perfil
- The registered evidence does not securely establish every resident's spoken language; no language is assigned from material style alone.
Família linguística: No secure assignment from this evidence
People and other organisms contribute differently to landscape history.
Ancient farming practices varied by environment and period.
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Fontes usadas nesta 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
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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S2
Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas
PNAS 109, 6473-6478 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2012
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S3
Raised-Field Agricultural Landscapes of French Guiana
José Iriarte, archaeological project · Original project and publication account, not a claim of timeless farming practices · Project record accessed 2026-10-20
Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026