Journal article
Human-environment interactions in pre-Columbian Amazonia: The case of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia
U Lombardo, S Denier, JH May, L Rodrigues, H Veit
Quaternary International | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2013
Abstract
The reconstruction of past environmental and historical events is much needed in Amazonia, a region at the centre of heated debates about the extent of pre-Columbian human disturbance of the natural ecosystems. Important aspects of this debate are to establish to what extent the rise of social complexity was influenced by the local geo-ecology; and what productive strategies were adopted in order to sustain these societies. The Llanos de Moxos (LM), in the Bolivian Amazon, is a vast floodplain made up of a variety of geo-ecological sub regions that host many different types of pre-Columbian earthworks. Therefore, it offers an excellent opportunity to compare different kinds of archaeological..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The present work has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant No 200021-122289 and 200020-141277/1 and performed under authorization No 017/2012 issued by the Unidad de Arqueologia y Museos (UDAM) del Estado Plurinacional de Boliva. We thank Dr. M.R. Michel Lopez from the Ministerio de Culturas and our Bolivian counterpart Dr. J.M. Capriles for their support. We thank the Siriono people, the communities of Villa Banzer, Miraflores and Peroto Mr. E Boheme, Mr. Bauser, Mr. M. Mostajo, Mr.T. Ortiz, Mr. O. Sikuajara, Mr. J. Soruco, and Mr. F. Velasco-Cuellar for granting us free access to their land. Field work assistance by B. Vogt is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Arroyo-Kalin, M. and the anonymous reviewer for their suggestions. Special thanks to E. Canal-Beeby for her good advice and improvement of the manuscript.