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Braund, David. "Myth and Ritual at Sinope: From Diogenes the Cynic to Sanape the Amazon." Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 16, no. 1-2 (2010): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157005711x560291.

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Abstract The interaction of myth and history at Sinope is explored with regard (1) to Diogenes the Cynic and (2) Sanape/Sinope the Amazon. The modern statue of Diogenes illustrates the abiding and changing significance of an individual whose myth is much more important than the more probable details of his biography. His dwelling in a storage-jar may echo the image of Sinope as a centre of production and exchange (especially in wine and oil), while his apparent exile from Sinope (with his father) may shed some light on the obscure history of the city around the turn of the fifth into the fourth century BC, especially in its dealings with Athens.As for Amazons, it is argued that the distinction between Sinope the nymph and Sinope/Sanape the Amazon is not clear-cut, especially because the nymph was imagined (as often as not) as a daughter of Ares, like the Amazons. That explains why she is an Amazon (and not a nymph) in Pseudo-Scymnus, writing for a king of neighbouring Bithynia. The much-discussed version of Andron of Teos and his story of the hard-drinking Amazon may owe something to the city’s reputation for wine, but it seems to be marginal to the main-line tradition from Heraclitus to Pseudo-Scymnus and the Tabula Albana. Sinope was one of several cities of Asia Minor which claimed and celebrated an Amazon in its mythical past. Aeneas Tacticus gives a clue to Amazon cult practice in the city. The link with Amazons may also have assisted Sinope’s imperialism in the eastern Black Sea region.

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Mann, C. C. "ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Earthmovers of the Amazon." Science 321, no. 5893 (August 29, 2008): 1148–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.321.5893.1148.

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Cascon, Leandro Matthews, and Caroline Fernandes Caromano. "Paleoethnobotany perspectives in Central Amazon archaeology." Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. Suplemento, supl.8 (September 10, 2009): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5939.revmaesupl.2009.113523.

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Inspirado pelos problemas de pesquisa desenvolvidos pelo Projeto Amazônia Central1, o presente artigo aborda o potencial da paleoetnobotânica na elucidação das relações estabelecidas pelos grupos amazônicos com o mundo vegetal e como estas relações influenciaram definitivamente a história da Floresta Amazônica e dos grupos que nela viveram

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Stokstad, E. "AMAZON ARCHAEOLOGY: 'Pristine' Forest Teemed With People." Science 301, no. 5640 (September 19, 2003): 1645a—1646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.301.5640.1645a.

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Raymond, J. Scott. "Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil:Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil." Latin American Anthropology Review 4, no. 2 (December 1992): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlat.1992.4.2.88.

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Costa, Diogo M. "Archaeology of the African Slaves in the Amazon." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 5, no. 2 (May 3, 2016): 198–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2016.1204790.

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H. Walker, John. "Reflections on archaeology, poverty and tourism in the Bolivian Amazon." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 6, no. 3 (June 3, 2014): 215–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-03-2014-0015.

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Purpose – This paper aims to argue that one of the ways of enabling tourism to become sustainable is for archaeologists to relate archaeology to poverty, while being aware of the process of heritage production. It proposes that one way to engage with issues of poverty is to talk to people who are trying to get out of poverty. Many archaeologists are already at work using a similar perspective not just to integrate international scholarship with local interests, but to hand over authority relating to aspects of research to the local community. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews literature about and archaeological study in the Bolivian Amazon region. Here, all-weather roads are scarce and unreliable. Scholars are beginning to document and analyze the archaeological record of this region, and as lowland Bolivians develop tourism, the article considers how archaeology could help connect the Bolivian Amazon to an international audience. Findings – An anthropological perspective suggests that projects in which local people are connected to decision-making will have long-term effects. Without such integration, cycles of boom and bust are likely to repeat. The article cites two examples: the inscription of the Ichapekene Piesta Moxos on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Museo Yacuma, in Santa Ana del Yacuma. Community archaeology, in which the community makes decisions about how research will proceed, is a developing trend, which stands to benefit local people, archaeologists and tourists. Originality/value – The paper outlines how community archaeology in the Beni region of Bolivia can be built on a strong foundation: first, by a community of Benianos that are ready, willing and able to be a part of both the development of tourism and of archaeology and second, via its long and varied archaeological record, providing plenty of material for the development of heritage. The question is whether a community archaeology can generate and sustain archaeological heritage as part of a tourism industry?

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Meggers, Betty J., and Anna Curtenius Roosevelt. "Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil." Journal of Field Archaeology 19, no. 3 (1992): 399. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/529927.

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Bezerra, Marcia. "For a solidary and activist [public] archaeology in the Amazon." AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 10 (March 21, 2021): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/ap.v10i0.295.

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To think about public archaeology in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic is a task which forces us to deal with frustrations and challenges imposed, by the current moment, on all of us. One of the most profound effects of the pandemic is the social isolation and the prohibition to our most human relations of closeness. Distancing rules have created a ‘pandemic sociability’ (Toledo and Souza Junior 2020) in which fear of the virus, of contact, of death, of the very possibility of being vector of the disease dictate the movement of bodies and, at the same time, dislocate our view towards other realities around us.

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Silva Alves Muniz, Tiago. "Towards an archaeology of rubber." Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 9, no. 2 (March 4, 2021): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25160/bjbs.v9i2.122034.

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This article aims to address the impacts of rubber via historical and contemporary archaeology of the Amazon. Through an “archaeology of rubber” a notion of modernity is examined here. From the creation of rubber gloves to snow boots and tires, rubber has allowed humans to expand their interactions with the environment. As these interactions expanded, the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution and Occidentalism entangled actors in a complex web of meanings, becomings and agencies in opposition to local knowledge. Through a plural and multispecies approach, this article places the study of rubber’s materiality in the field of the archaeology of capitalism and modernity. Also, through oral history, deep archival research and public archaeology, local ontologies and materialities offer contemporary archaeology a more elastic view, aimed at widening perceptions of a global story.

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Sturgeon, Mary C. "The Corinth Amazon: Formation of a Roman Classical Sculpture." American Journal of Archaeology 99, no. 3 (July 1995): 483. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/506946.

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Raymond, J. Scott. "Moundbuilders of the Amazon: Geophysical Archaeology on Marajo Island, Brazil." Latin American Anthropology Review 4, no. 2 (June 28, 2008): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlca.1992.4.2.88.

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Rostain, Stéphen. "WHERE THE AMAZON RIVER MEETS THE ORINOCO RIVER. ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GUIANAS." Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia 4, no. 1 (June 16, 2012): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/amazonica.v4i1.880.

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Archaeological and interdisciplinary investigations conducted in the Guianas during these last 35 years offer a new picture of the pre-Columbian Guianas. Although archaeology still is relatively incipient in the Guianas, it is possible to draw up a panorama of the prehistory of this huge region. During the last millennium before the European Conquest, Guianas coast was divided into two main territories dominated by two different cultural entities. Cayenne Island in French Guiana was the key-area marking the boundary between two cultural traditions. Western coast up to the Guyana was dominated by cultures linked to the Arauquinoid Tradition originated in the Middle Orinoco. Eastern coast was occupied by cultures belonging to the Polychrome Tradition of the Lower Amazon. These two cultural entities grew up from ca. AD 600 up to their destruction by the European Conquest. Keywords: Archaeology, Guianas, arauquinoid tradition, polychrome tradition

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Hammond, Norman, and Karen Olsen Bruhns. "The Paute Valley Project in Ecuador, 1984." Antiquity 61, no. 231 (March 1987): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00072483.

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South American archaeology is a field which ANTIQUITY all too rarely embraces, and we are glad to have this report (originally planned for volume 59, 1985) on a new project studying trans-Andean contacts between the Pacific coast and the Amazon jungles.

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Neves, Eduardo Góes. "Twenty years of Amazonian archaeology in Brazil (1977–1997)." Antiquity 72, no. 277 (September 1998): 625–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087044.

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This paper presents a brief overview of Amazonian archaeology in Brazil in the last two decades, a fitting span since 1997 marked the 20th anniversary of the PRONAPABA — Programa Nacional de Pesquisas Arqueológicas nu Bacia Amazônica — created by Clifford Evans, Betty Meggers and Mário Simões with the co-operation of several Brazilian archaeologists.In contemporary archaeology of the Brazilian Amazon, rapidly increased knowledge about the early pre-ceramic and ceramic occupation has not been matched by an understanding of the socio-political dynamics of native Amazonian societies during the last two millennia, notably immediately before the 15th century AD.

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Holloway, Thomas H., and Barbara Weinstein. "The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920." American Historical Review 90, no. 2 (April 1985): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1852861.

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Souza, Rafael. "The Flow and the Line: Conflict Archaeology in the Brazilian Amazon Forest." Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 3, no. 1 (March 28, 2016): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jca.v3i1.27603.

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Macedo, Rodrigo Santana, Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Hedinaldo Narciso Lima, Adriana Costa Gil de Souza, Francisco Weliton Rocha Silva, Omar Cubas Encinas, and Eduardo Góes Neves. "Amazonian dark earths in the fertile floodplains of the Amazon River, Brazil: an example of non-intentional formation of anthropic soils in the Central Amazon region." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 14, no. 1 (April 2019): 207–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-81222019000100013.

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ABSTRACT Amazonian dark earths (ADEs) are fertile soils created by pre-Columbian Amerindian societies of the Amazon Basin. However, it is still not clear whether these soils were produced intentionally to improve infertile Amazonian upland soils or if they resulted from the accumulation of organic matter from sedentary settlements. This study characterizes the ADEs found in the naturally fertile alluvial floodplains of the Amazon River in the Central Brazilian Amazon according to total, exchangeable, and available contents of elements and organic carbon in soil profiles. ADEs contained higher levels of available elements and total P, Ca, Zn, and Cu. High total Cr, Ni, Co, and V content in these soils indicate that mafic minerals contributed to their composition, while higher contents of P, Zn, Ba, and Sr indicate anthropic enrichment. The presence of ADEs in floodplain areas strongly indicates non-intentional anthropic fertilization of the alluvial soils, which naturally contain levels of P, Ca, Zn, and Cu higher than those needed to cultivate common plants. The presence of archaeological sites in the floodplains also shows that pre-Columbian populations lived in these regions as well as on bluffs above the Amazon River.

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Chacon, Thiago. "On Proto-Languages and Archaeological Cultures: pre-history and material culture in the Tukanoan Family." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica 5, no. 1 (October 25, 2013): 217–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v5i1.16548.

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This work analyzes the cultural history of the Tukanoan family by attempting the reconstruction of 107 words related to the material culture shared by Amazonian peoples, especially in the Northwest Amazon. The analysis of the terminological system of words that can be reconstructed to Proto-Tukanoan, as well as words that can only be reconstructed to intermediate proto-languages or words that cannot be reconstructed at all allows for a set of cultural inferences regarding the historic evolution of Tukanoan family, which is accomplished along a dialogue with the ethnographic and archeological literature of the Northwest Amazon, as well as following in general terms the proposals for linking Historical Linguistics and Archaeology in different parts of the globe. It is concluded that there was a process of cultural differentiation between the two main branches of the Tukanoan family, as the reflex of distinct integration of each branch in different regional subsystems in the Northwest Amazon.

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González-Ruibal, Alfredo, and Almudena Hernando. "Genealogies of Destruction: An Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in the Amazon Forest." Archaeologies 6, no. 1 (February 14, 2010): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11759-010-9120-1.

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Alden, Dauril, and John Memming. "Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians." American Historical Review 94, no. 2 (April 1989): 560. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1867030.

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Myers, Thomas P. "Agricultural limitations of the Amazon in theory and practice." World Archaeology 24, no. 1 (June 1992): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1992.9980195.

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Bezerra, Marcia. "At that Edge: Archaeology, Heritage Education, and Human Rights in the Brazilian Amazon." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 19, no. 4 (September 8, 2015): 822–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-015-0312-7.

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Costa, Diogo Menezes. "Historical Archaeology in the Amazon: the Murutucu Sugar Cane Mill Field School Project." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21, no. 3 (March 6, 2017): 674–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-017-0400-y.

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Piperno, Dolores R. "Aboriginal agriculture and land usage in the Amazon Basin, Ecuador." Journal of Archaeological Science 17, no. 6 (November 1990): 665–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-4403(90)90048-a.

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Browne Ribeiro, Anna T., Helena P. Lima, Fernando L. T. Marques, Morgan J. Schmidt, and Kevin S. McDaniel. "Results from Pilot Archaeological Fieldwork at the Carrazedo Site, Lower Xingu River, Amazonia." Latin American Antiquity 27, no. 3 (September 2016): 318–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.27.3.318.

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Increasingly, archaeological research in Amazonia is revealing complex precolonial occupation in areas around riverine confluences. In 2014, the first site-based archaeological investigations were undertaken in Gurupá, Pará, Brazil, a municipality that spans the region of the Xingu-Amazon confluence. The Portuguese controlled access to Amazonia from 1623 onward through a network of settlements organized around Gurupá. Results from extensive excavations of terra preta sites, landscape archaeology, and analysis of ceramic evidence suggest that this was also a precolonial crossroads. Carrazedo, once a booming historical town (Arapijó), sits atop a significantly larger terra preta site. Excavations in historical and precolonial sectors of Carrazedo found well-preserved remains, including a precolonial house terrace complex. The extent of terra preta and earthworks at Carrazedo indicate that the precolonial occupation was more intensive than the colonial-historical period occupation. Regional survey revealed colonial-historical period sites consistently overlying expansive precolonial sites, the density and extent of which suggest a major precolonial center at the Xingu-Amazon confluence. Overall, ecological and landscape modifications appear to have been more intense in the precolonial past than during later periods. Short- and long-distance settlement networks also differed during the two periods. This as-of-yet understudied region promises to shed new light on deep-time human-environment interactions and spatial organization in the humid tropics of Amazonia.

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Luke, David. "A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy: Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States." Time and Mind 4, no. 1 (January 2011): 115–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175169711x12900033260600.

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Schmidt, Morgan. "Amazonian Dark Earths: pathways to sustainable development in tropical rainforests?" Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 8, no. 1 (April 2013): 11–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1981-81222013000100002.

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Fertile dark anthrosols associated with pre-Columbian settlement across the Amazon Basin have sparked wide interest for their potential contribution to sustainable use and management of tropical soils and ecosystems. In the Upper Xingu region of the southern Amazon, research on archaeological settlements and among contemporary descendant populations provides critical new data on the formation and use of anthrosols. These findings provide a basis for describing the variability of soil modifications that result from diverse human activities and a general model for the formation of Amazonian anthrosols. They underscore the potential for indigenous systems of knowledge and resource management to inform efforts for conservation and sustainable development of Amazonian ecosystems.

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Sweet, David G., and Robin L. Anderson. "Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911." American Historical Review 106, no. 1 (February 2001): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2652345.

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Silva, Fabíola Andréa, and Francisco Silva Noelli. "Mobility and Territorial Occupation of the Asurini do Xingu, Pará, Brazil: An Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Amazon." Latin American Antiquity 26, no. 4 (December 2015): 493–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.493.

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In recent decades, archaeology has provided evidence of the diverse nature of colonialism as well as of the specific local histories associated with this globalizing process. Archaelogists have also investigated the strategies of interaction and resistance adopted by indigenous peoples when faced with attempts at economic, political, and social domination. This article presents data about the dynamics of mobility and territorial occupation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the Asurini do Xingu, an indigenous group living on the middle Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest, in the southern portion of the Brazilian state of Pará. We show that these dynamics represent a conscious and strategic choice by the Asurini to preserve their way of life in the face of colonialism and the expansion of capitalism.

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Carew, Joy. "Book reviews : Big Mouth: the Amazon speaks." Race & Class 32, no. 2 (October 1990): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030639689003200210.

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Herrera, Luisa Fernanda, Inés Cavelier, Camilo Rodríguez, and Santiago Mora. "The technical transformation of an agricultural system in the Colombian Amazon." World Archaeology 24, no. 1 (June 1992): 98–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1992.9980196.

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Williams, Denis. "Early Pottery in the Amazon: A Correction." American Antiquity 62, no. 2 (April 1997): 342–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/282516.

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Based on submission forms and other documents deposited in the Smithsonian Institution archives on termination of the Smithsonian Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory in 1986, Anna Roosevelt argues that shell middens on the coast of Guyana and northeastern Brazil contain pottery, and that the dates support her argument that “Amazonian early pottery is the most securely dated early pottery in the New World” (1995:128). Pending publication of a detailed monograph, I maintain that the Guyana sites in question are preceramic and thus offer no support to Roosevelt's thesis.

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Cabrera Becerra, Gabriel. "The Antillean presence in the Amazon: the Barbadian blacks, the exploitation of rubber and its images." Memorias, no. 36 (February 28, 2019): 57–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.36.305.8.

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Bowser, Brenda J., and John Q. Patton. "Domestic Spaces as Public Places: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study of Houses, Gender, and Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11, no. 2 (June 2004): 157–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:jarm.0000038065.43689.75.

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Gutierrez, Maria Paz. "The Northwestern Amazon malocas: Craft now and then." Journal of Material Culture 25, no. 1 (March 25, 2019): 3–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183519836141.

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In the Northwestern Amazon, resilience in construction has been traditionally conceived as a capacity for social, climatic, and spatial adaptability. Through methods of seasonal reconstruction based on lightweight enclosures made mainly from palms, vernacular housing, or malocas, in the region have proven efficient from environmental, human comfort, and cultural perspectives. Intricately woven palms, layered to shape roofs and walls, form enclosures that repel water, insulate heat, and reflect light while embodying specific projections of the body in space as the basis of unique cosmological perspectives of spatial organization. The palm-weave is the very root of the construction ethos of Northwestern Amazon housing. In the last few decades, these complex woven enclosures have been progressively replaced with industrial panels made of materials such as galvanized steel or cement, simply because of their low economic cost and availability. The loss of the palm-weave in roof-walls is not a mere replacement but a supplantation of material culture and has profound environmental, human comfort, and social implications. In a context where resilience has been shaped cognitively and physically through a plant-based material culture of adaptability, what is the extent of a potential craft disruption? The supplantation of the palm-weave technical practice implies a loss of social engagement in a craft that has defined an understanding of belonging and inhabitation. This article addresses how the geometric, scale, and spatial characteristics originating from the distinctive palm-weave craft of the Western Amazon malocas of the Bora, Miraña, Muiname (Witoto), Murui (Witoto), Yukuna, Tikuna, and Makuna groups perform as a living entity. By questioning the differences between craft preservation vis-à-vis reclamation, the author explores the specific architectural and social characteristics that are locally valued in the inherited craft to create a path for discussing future generations of palm-weave in the Northwestern Amazon.

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Mallon, Florencia E., Michael F. Brown, and Eduardo Fernandez. "War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon." American Historical Review 98, no. 2 (April 1993): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2167047.

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Bezerra, Marcia. "SIGNIFYING HERITAGE IN AMAZON: A PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT AT VILA DE JOANES, MARAJÓ ISLAND, BRAZIL." Chungará (Arica) 44, no. 3 (September 2012): 533–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0717-73562012000300015.

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Maslin, Mark, Claudia Vilela, Naja Mikkelsen, and Pieter Grootes. "Causes of catastrophic sediment failures of the Amazon Fan." Quaternary Science Reviews 24, no. 20-21 (November 2005): 2180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.01.016.

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Lagrou, Els. "COPERNICUS IN THE AMAZON: ONTOLOGICAL TURNINGS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF AMERINDIAN ETHNOLOGIES." Sociologia & Antropologia 8, no. 1 (April 2018): 133–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752017v815.

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Abstract In this article I explore the ontological turn in anthropological theory through three interconnected approaches. First, I situate the academic success of Amerindian ontologies in the context of recent debates on the urgency of addressing the political consequences of the anthropocene. Secondly, I undertake an archaeology of the concept of perspectivism as a central stage of the ontological turn, showing how the sub-discipline of Amerindian ethnology has always had a vocation for Copernican turnings, from the time of Montaigne until today. In conclusion, I argue for a return to aesthetics and poetics as the quintessential domains for exploring how different ontologies can teach us to look at the world differently. To understand the multiple versions of Amerindian relational ontologies we have to be able to perceive the relational character of the aesthetics they reveal. The argument is sustained by a short presentation of Huni Kuin (Cashinahua) aesthetics as revealed in huni meka, ayahuasca song.

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Gomes, Denise Maria Cavalcante. "Politics and Ritual in Large Villages in Santarém, Lower Amazon, Brazil." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 2 (December 7, 2016): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774316000627.

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The character and development of complex societies has been one of the major interests of Amazonian archaeology. This article presents an ontological interpretation to explain the socio-political organization and importance of ritual in the Santarém area, Lower Amazon, Brazil, during the late pre-colonial period (ad 1000–1600), drawing from the contributions of Viveiros de Castro on Amazonian ontologies and Pierre Clastres on the constitution of power in the South American tropical lowlands. This approach affords new insights into the spatial organization of large habitation sites, the settlement patterns of nearby smaller sites and the pragmatic role of ritual objects. The data point to demographic growth, elaborate spatial organization and the existence of independent villages, probably resulting from fissions. The distribution of objects used in ritual contexts suggests a network employing a mytho-cosmological iconography that emphasizes bodily metamorphosis, indicating a predatory ontology related to Amerindian perspectivism and the presence of institutionalized shamanism. The text argues for the existence of distinct cosmopolitical strategies used to maintain the egalitarian order and that the flows of knowledge, sacred artefacts and religious specialists within the wider social sphere structured regional relations.

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Roosevelt, Anna. "Uma memória histórica da pesquisa arqueológica no Brasil (1981-2007)." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 4, no. 1 (April 2009): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1981-81222009000100013.

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This memoir gives a history of my archaeological research in Brazil and especially the theoretical issues, empirical interests, collaborations, and events that motivated it. I begin with my early course and field experiences as a student, my work as a museum curator and university professor, my research in literature, archives, and collections, and my early collaborations and interactions with other students and with scholars. Then I trace the relationship of my Venezuelan Orinoco dissertation work to my interest in the Amazon, and explain how that led subsequently to my field research in Brazil. I then summarize the work at the four regional foci of the project in the Lower Amazon of Brazil and point to what might be the theoretical implications of the results in light of the results of work by other scholars. I conclude with an explanation of how the Brazilian research relates to my preliminary research in Central Africa and conclude with the implications of the South American and African research for changing concepts of human evolution, human ecology, and culture history.

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Athens, J. Stephen, and Jerome V. Ward. "The Late Quaternary of the Western Amazon: climate, vegetation and humans." Antiquity 73, no. 280 (June 1999): 287–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00088256.

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The Amazon rain-forest we know today is quite a recent phenomenon. New research on climate and vegetation changes from a series of cores in Ecuador provide a chronology for early agriculture and forest clearance from early Holocene times.

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Ervanne, Heini, Högne Jungner, and Matti Räsänen. "Dating of fluvial sediments from the Amazon lowland in Peru." Quaternary Science Reviews 11, no. 1-2 (January 1992): 71–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-3791(92)90044-9.

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Mayle, Francis E. "Book Review: Amazon pollen manual and atlas." Holocene 10, no. 3 (April 2000): 410–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968360001000315.

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Stenborg, Per, Denise P. Schaan, and Camila G. Figueiredo. "Contours of the Past: LiDAR Data Expands the Limits of Late Pre-Columbian Human Settlement in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon." Journal of Field Archaeology 43, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1417198.

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Schillinger, Kerstin, and Stephen J. Lycett. "The Flow of Culture: Assessing the Role of Rivers in the Inter-community Transmission of Material Traditions in the Upper Amazon." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26, no. 1 (March 3, 2018): 135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9369-z.

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Costa Oliveira, Thiago Lopes da. "Lost Objects, Hidden Stories: On the Ethnographic Collections Burned in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro." Latin American Antiquity 31, no. 2 (May 19, 2020): 256–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2020.16.

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In this article, I take a close look at the objects collected over the last 200 years from the indigenous people of the Upper Rio Negro, northwest of the Brazilian Amazon, that were part of the ethnographic collection of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. Examination of these objects allows us to explore the main characteristics of the ethnographic archive of the museum, as the Upper Rio Negro collections were connected to different topics associated with indigenous societies and histories in Brazil, including enslavement, forced displacement, religious conversion, and indigenous territorial, artifactual, and cultural knowledge. This article also highlights the professional commitment of Brazilian anthropology to amplifying indigenous voices over the course of the history of the discipline, and by doing so, it pays homage to the women and men whose work built the National Museum collections.

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Reyes‐García, Victoria, Vincent Vadez, Elizabeth Byron, Lilian Apaza, William R. Leonard, Eddy Perez, and David Wilkie. "Market Economy and the Loss of Folk Knowledge of Plant Uses: Estimates from the Tsimane’ of the Bolivian Amazon." Current Anthropology 46, no. 4 (August 2005): 651–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/432777.

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Begossi, A., M. Clauzet, J. L. Figueiredo, L. Garuana, R. V. Lima, P. F. Lopes, M. Ramires, A. L. Silva, and R. A. M. Silvano. "Are Biological Species and Higher‐Ranking Categories Real? Fish Folk Taxonomy on Brazil's Atlantic Forest Coast and in the Amazon." Current Anthropology 49, no. 2 (April 2008): 291–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/527437.

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