Amazonia and the Orinoco: Rivers, Landscapes, and Living Heritage
Southern Amazonian rim · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Upper Tapajós ditched-settlement contexts

Upper Tapajós Basin (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)

Ditches, built spaces and connecting landscapes broaden the archaeological picture of the southern Amazonian rim. Field verification and laboratory work remain essential alongside remote sensing.

Settlement survey and demographic-model context Mainly approximately 1250-1500 CE in the 2018 survey interpretation; surveyed sites need separate dates Satellite interpretation, ground survey, excavation and dating, settlement models and plant microremains. Alta Floresta public regional-town orientation, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Approximate public orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, political, customary or sovereignty boundary. Not a burial, ancestral-remains, restricted rock-art or sacred-site location, private earthwork, Indigenous village or contact point for isolated peoples; no access or collecting permission is implied.
Resumo

Comunidades, paisagens e evidências

Rios, florestas, humedais e conexões

The upper Tapajós is a large basin, not one city. The regional town point reveals no protected enclosure or private property.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Networks and differing settlement sizes are observed or modeled; a modern nation-state or uniform regional authority is not established.

Transformação colonial, património vivo e recepção moderna

Survey coverage and preservation shape estimates. The atlas does not publish modeled territorial polygons or inflate preliminary findings into exact population totals.

Survey A previously under-sampled region

The 2018 study reports settlement evidence from the upper basin, not complete coverage of all southern Amazonia.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Methods Microremains complement mapping

The Reading project account describes phytolith processing from a ditch-enclosure soil profile; this is not a complete dietary reconstruction.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Scale Regional comparisons need limits

The PAST overview distinguishes study regions; its geographical and political interpretations are not accepted boundaries.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Surveyed settlement contexts

    The study's broad frame does not make every mapped feature contemporary.

  2. Plant evidence investigated

    The project account documents preparation and analysis of phytolith samples.

  3. Settlement study published

    The original study joins field evidence to regional modeling, retaining sampling and demographic uncertainty.

  4. Different regional histories

    The project overview places the basin within wider research rather than one Amazon-wide polity.

Cultura e língua

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

Remote sensing needs ground context.

Plant sampling and settlement mapping answer different questions.

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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.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. C7

    Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon

    Nature 606, 325-328 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2022

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. C10

    The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery

    Scientific Reports · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2018

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. S1

    Pre-Columbian earth-builders settled along the entire southern rim of the Amazon

    Nature Communications · Original settlement survey and regional modeling; title is not a complete census · 2018

  15. S2

    Method: Tropical Palaeoecology Research Group

    University of Reading · Original project methods account; not a finalized dietary reconstruction · 2018 field and laboratory account

  16. S3

    PAST: Regions

    University of Exeter · Regional project overview; dated research framing, not territorial endorsement · Project record accessed 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026