Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 8, Pages 1875-1885Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.011
Keywords
Amazonia; Llanos de Moxos; Settlement patterns; Pre-Columbian archaeology
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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Despite an increasing number of publications regarding the Pre-Columbian earthworks of the Llanos de Moxos, there have been no serious attempts to undertake a systematic survey of the archaeological remains of this lowland region in the Bolivian Amazon. Based on the GIS analysis of data gathered in the field and retrieved from satellite images, we discuss the spatial distribution of the Pre-Columbian settlements in a 4500 Km(2) area of the Llanos de Moxos to the east of Trinidad, capital of the Beni Department, and their relationship with the geographical settings. Our findings shed new light on the prehistory of the region and bear important implications for our understanding of the impact of Pre-Columbian human occupation. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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