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A port by any other name: a preliminary spatial analysis of ancient infrastructural landscapes and settlement organization at Macurany, Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorEllis, Grace
dc.contributor.authorBrowne Ribeiro, Anna T.
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Michel
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Christopher T.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-07T08:17:00Z
dc.date.available2023-06-07T08:17:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractComplex human-environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human-environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. Middens, terra preta, and cultural forests have been found at archaeological sites in regions surrounding Macurany, but wharfs have not previously been reported in Amazonian contexts predating European contact. Taken together, these features are clearly the result of anthropogenesis and represent a range of subsistence, settlement, and infrastructure-building activities pointing to an ancient society that was actively engaged in modifying the surrounding landscape for purposes beyond settlement and subsistence. Evidence for a permanent, extensive, continuously settled society practicing intensive landscape engineering in this region of Amazonia reinforces findings of dense habitation, infrastructure, and early urbanization in Amazonia prior to European contact. This research helps expand our understanding of human-environment interactions, landscape formation processes, and settlement organization in ancient Amazonia.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Louisville to Anna T. Browne Ribeiropt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/laq.2023.6pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1045-6635
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/19667
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectAmazonian archaeologypt_PT
dc.subjectLandscape formation processespt_PT
dc.subjectInfrastructurept_PT
dc.subjectUrbanizationpt_PT
dc.subjectGeographic information systems (GIS)pt_PT
dc.titleA port by any other name: a preliminary spatial analysis of ancient infrastructural landscapes and settlement organization at Macurany, Brazilpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.titleLatin American Antiquitypt_PT
person.familyNameEllis
person.givenNameGrace
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