Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia: Historical Ecology of Social ComplexityThe legendary El Dorado—the city of gold—remains a mere legend, but astonishing new discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed. Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, synthesizing exciting new evidence of large-scale land and resource management to tell a new history of indigenous Amazonia. Schaan also engages fundamental debates about the development of social complexity and the importance of ancient Amazonia from a global perspective. This innovative, interdisciplinary book is a major contribution to the study of human-environment relations, social complexity, and past and present indigenous societies. |
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Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia: Historical Ecology of Social Complexity Denise Pahl Schaan No preview available - 2011 |
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia: Historical Ecology of Social Complexity Denise P Schaan No preview available - 2013 |
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Acre ADE sites Amazon basin Amazon River Amazonian Anajás River anthropomorphic Arawak archaeological record Arqueologia artifacts Balée basin Belém Beni River Bolivia Brazil built burials Carvajal century ceramics ceremonial chiefdoms clay complex societies cultural dams decorated Denevan deposits earthworks Erickson ethnographic excavations Fazenda female Figure figurines fish forest Formiga phase funerary vessels gender geoglyphs greenstone groups Guapindaia habitation mounds Heckenberger human iconography incised indicate indigenous kilometers Konduri lakes landscape layers lithic lived Llanos de Mojos located lower Amazon manioc Marajó Island Marajoara phase Meggers and Evans meters Museum natives Nhamundá Nimuendajú occupation Pará Pärssinen period ponds populations pottery pre-Columbian Purus River raised fields Ranzi regional polities ring ditches rituals Roosevelt Santarém Santarém phase savannas Schaan season sherds snakes social soil South studied tangas Tapajós River terra Terra Preta territory tion Trombetas River tropical villages Xingu Xingu River