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Robertshaw, Peter. "Munsa Earthworks." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 32, no. 1 (January 1997): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00672709709511585.

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Chadwick, Adrian M. "‘The Stubborn Light of Things’. Landscape, Relational Agency, and Linear Earthworks in Later Prehistoric Britain." European Journal of Archaeology 19, no. 2 (2016): 245–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14619571.2015.1102006.

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Several regions in Britain saw the construction of large, linear earthworks of banks and ditches during the later Bronze Age and in the Iron Age, often extending for many kilometres. In the light of recent theoretical discussions of materiality and relational agency within archaeology and other social sciences, and through an avowedly discursive poetics of place, examples of these earthworks are re-assessed as actants, capable of affecting and directing the lives of people, animals, and plants. These linear earthworks were not static monuments, but were active assemblages or meshworks of materiality, movement, and memory.

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Welch, Paul D. "Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley by E.G. Squier & E.H. Davis: the first classic of US archaeology." Antiquity 72, no. 278 (December 1998): 921–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087597.

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The two most important 19th-century books on archaeology in the United States both dealt with earthworks. The earlier of these two, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim G. Squier & Edwin H. Davis, was the first volume published by the fledgling Smithsonian Institution, and is 150 years old this year. It presented, with lavish illustrations, information about hundreds of earthworks. Its principal argument was that the mounds had been built by an American race distinct from the historically known indigenes, no less and perhaps considerably more than 1000 years ago. This volume in no small measure catalysed the development of archaeology in the United States. Without Squier & Davis’ extensive documentation of the vast number, size, complexity and variety of earthworks, the later book might never have been commissioned or might have been conceived in far less ambitious terms.

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Burks, Jarrod, and Robert A. Cook. "Beyond Squier and Davis: Rediscovering Ohio's Earthworks Using Geophysical Remote Sensing." American Antiquity 76, no. 4 (October 2011): 667–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.76.4.667.

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The prehistoric earthworks of Ohio have played a major role in the development of American archaeology and they continue to figure prominently in archaeological research. However, while a select group of larger earthwork sites have been intensively studied and resurveyed with geophysical survey instruments, much of the ongoing earthwork research, and reference to less-well-known sites, still relies on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century maps. In this article, we present the results of magnetic gradient surveys at three earthwork complexes in south central Ohio. Though much degraded by agricultural plowing and other historic impacts, our survey results show that despite near invisibility at the surface, Ohio's earthwork sites are (1) readily detected in geophysical surveys, (2) more complex than most early maps suggest, and (3) more numerous and varied than once thought. Given the major role these sites have taken on in studies that explore topics ranging from community structure and burial ceremonialism to population mobility and the development of socioeconomic complexity, a radical redrafting of the nineteenth-century maps could have far-reaching implications in the study of Woodland period (specifically, ca. 300 B.C.-A.D. 500) cultures in the Midwest U.S.

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DeBoer, Warren R. "Ceremonial Centres from the Cayapas (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to Chillicothe (Ohio, USA)." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7, no. 2 (October 1997): 225–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774300001955.

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Although they are some of the most impressive archaeological monuments in North America, the geometric earthworks of Ohio Hopewell remain poorly understood. By incorporating multiple lines of ethnographic and archaeological evidence an interpretation of the meanings congealed in these ancient earthworks can be offered.

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Tankersley, Kenneth B. "Archaeological Geology of the Turner Site Complex, Hamilton County, Ohio." North American Archaeologist 28, no. 4 (October 2007): 271–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/na.28.4.a.

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For more than 150 years, the age of the Turner site complex has been based on the seriation of artifacts and geometry of the earthworks. Seriation failed to provide meaningful relative dates because it was based on errors in the geographic and geologic data of the nineteenth century. Newly interpreted geography, geology, and direct AMS 14C measurements indicate that the Hopewell village, Elevated Circle, and Graded Way predate the construction of the Great Oval, Mound 3, and possibly Mound 15 (ca. 1710 + 50 RC yr B.P. to 1850 + 50 RC yr B.P., ca. A.D. 53 to A.D. 537 calibrated calendar years at two-sigma). Radiocarbon evidence also indicates that the Turner earthworks were built during the Post-Holocene Climatic Optimum. Hydraulic features such as dams, ditches, and drains are likely examples of Hopewell pragmatic, economic, and ritual adaptations to the cool and dry conditions associated with this climatic event.

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Ashbee, Paul, and Peter Jewell. "The Experimental Earthworks revisited." Antiquity 72, no. 277 (September 1998): 485–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00086920.

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Few archaeological projects set out with the intention of running for decades. The committee of the Experimental Earthwork project, however, developed an elaborate programme from 1960 until well into the 3rd millennium AD, designed to study the long-term processes of earthwork construction and change. Paul Ashbee and the late Peter Jewell present their personal view of the aims, experiences and some results of this project.Sadly Peter Jewell died on 23 May 1998, and this paper is a fitting tribute to his major role in the enterprise.

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O'Neal, Michael A., Matt E. O'Mansky, and Joseph A. MacGregor. "Modeling the natural degradation of earthworks." Geoarchaeology 20, no. 7 (2005): 739–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.20079.

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Evans, J. G., and M. P. Vaughan. "An Investigation into the Environment and Archaeology of the Wessex Linear Ditch System." Antiquaries Journal 65, no. 1 (March 1985): 11–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500024689.

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Investigations into a later prehistoric ditch system in an area of Wessex about 15 km. south-west of Salisbury are described. The main objectives were to study the past environment of the earthworks at various stages in their history and to investigate their form and how they may have functioned. The two parts of the system studied were just south of Blagdon Plantation, Pentridge, Dorset, and on Knoll Down, Damerham, Hants. Excavations, study of soil and sediment macromorphology, and molluscan analysis were the main techniques used.At Blagdon Plantation the earthwork lay in an area in which there was no trace of earlier fields. The bank was of simple dump construction, the ditch shallow and flat-bottomed, possibly unfinished. The molluscan sequence prior to the construction of the earthwork indicated a succession from closed woodland to stable grassland. The ditch sequence showed no trace of shading, and there was no indication of a former hedgerow on the bank crest. At Knoll Down, the earthwork crosses lynchets of an Iron Age field system, dated by potsherds from the ancient ploughsoil sealed beneath the bank. In one profile, lynchet deposits with an open-country molluscan fauna preceded the bank, and in some sections clear ploughsoils were present. A short episode when the area was under grass immediately preceded the earthwork. At one point, where there was no accompanying buried soil, deeply incised ploughmarks were present at the base of the bank, interpreted as clearance- or marking-out lines, possibly of a symbolic nature. The bank was of simple dump construction, the ditch deep, steep-sided, and with a narrow, flat bottom. There was no indication of a hedge. An earlier, smaller ditch, which may have held a wooden palisade, had been backfilled deliberately. These changes, which may reflect friction between different groups of people on various scales, took place in a prevailing environmental background of open country.

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Kasztelan, Robert. "Metody odkrywania niedawnej przeszłości." Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia 28 (December 27, 2023): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/fpp.2023.28.03.

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The article aims to show the possibility of studying events from the recent history with the help archaeology of the contemporary past. The reader will have the opportunity to get to know historical and ethnographic sources related to the anti-communist underground unit headed by a commander nicknamed “Tarzan”. The article will also present the relics of earthworks (bunkers, dugouts). They will be interpreted using archaeological methods.

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Lewis, Jennifer. "The medieval earthworks of the hundred of West Derby : tenurial evidence and physical structure." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281067.

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Pederson, Weinberger Jennifer. "Ohio Hopewell Earthworks: an examination of site use from non-mound space at the Hopewell Site." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1141810673.

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Miller, G. Logan. "RITUAL, CRAFT, AND ECONOMY IN OHIO HOPEWELL: AN EXAMINATION OF TWO EARTHWORKS ON THE LITTLE MIAMI RIVER." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405330537.

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Anderson, Jason Michael. "GIS and cluster analysis : understanding settlement systems in early Christian Ireland." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041887.

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Using cluster analysis and a geographic information system (GIS), this study attempted to identify a settlement system in the Dingle Peninsula of Early Christian Ireland based on the morphological variability of ringforts. Cluster analysis was used to determine if an intuitive ringfort typological model created by the author had validity. Use of cluster analysis identified three distinct classes of univallate ringfort. Although these clusters have a higher variable mean than anticipated, they do appear to verify partial validity of the author's model. With the exception of Cluster 1, it appears that the assumption that as unvallate ringfort banks increase in elaboration, than so does their internal diameter.ARC/INFO, a GIS was used to help test the hypothesized relationship between ringfort clusters. It was assumed that the univallate ringforts with the smallest banks would be very close to and in the line of sight of bivallate and mulitvallate ringforts. Those with an intermediate bank size would tend to be farther away and not in the line of sight of bivallate and multivallate ringforts. These assumptions were determined to be invalid.
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Culver, Emily G. "Environment and Human Response at Newark's Great Circle." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1312571965.

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McCord, Beth Kolbe. "Windsor Mound : a synthesis of an Adena mound in Randolph County." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/917019.

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In 1992 and 1993 the Archaeological Resources Management Service (ARMS) of Ball State University in conjunction with the Upper White River Archaeological Society (UWRAS) conducted limited research of Windsor Mound located in Randolph County, Indiana. The project consisted of obtaining accurate profiles of an amateur excavation that began in 1986 and backfilling the excavation. This thesis provides a synthesis of the previous studies on Windsor Mound, an analysis of the materials recovered and the results of the limited UWRAS/ARMS excavations.
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Fioccoprile, Emily Ann. "Lines across the land : a biography of the linear earthwork landscapes of the later Prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14112.

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During the first millennium BC, the people of the chalk landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds began carving up their world with monumental linear earthworks. This project explores the meanings of the later prehistoric boundary systems of the Yorkshire Wolds. It writes a biography of the linear earthwork landscapes of the north-central Wolds, using geographic information systems (GIS), original fieldwork and theories of agency and memory. Tracing the construction, use and modification of particular linear earthworks, it examines how these monuments would have related to other features in the landscape, and how they could have exercised agency within networks of interconnected people, animals, objects and other places. Finally, the project attempts to situate these boundary systems within the larger context of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age society in order to understand how the later prehistoric people of East Yorkshire would have experienced their world. Taking a biographical approach to landscape and allowing linear earthworks to become the protagonists of this narrative, the project charts the life histories of the earthworks at Wetwang-Garton Slack and Huggate Dykes and investigates the collective authorship of the wider landscape. To understand the rural, monumental landscapes of the Wolds, we must consider the agency of not only people, but also of animals and of monuments themselves. By focussing on the relationships which bound together linear earthworks and other agents, we can begin to understand the ways in which monumentalised landscapes both reflected and generated the cosmologies of prehistoric communities.

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Fioccoprile, Emily A. "Lines Across the Land: A Biography of the Linear Earthwork Landscapes of the Later Prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14112.

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During the first millennium BC, the people of the chalk landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds began carving up their world with monumental linear earthworks. This project explores the meanings of the later prehistoric boundary systems of the Yorkshire Wolds. It writes a biography of the linear earthwork landscapes of the north-central Wolds, using geographic information systems (GIS), original fieldwork and theories of agency and memory. Tracing the construction, use and modification of particular linear earthworks, it examines how these monuments would have related to other features in the landscape, and how they could have exercised agency within networks of interconnected people, animals, objects and other places. Finally, the project attempts to situate these boundary systems within the larger context of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age society in order to understand how the later prehistoric people of East Yorkshire would have experienced their world. Taking a biographical approach to landscape and allowing linear earthworks to become the protagonists of this narrative, the project charts the life histories of the earthworks at Wetwang-Garton Slack and Huggate Dykes and investigates the collective authorship of the wider landscape. To understand the rural, monumental landscapes of the Wolds, we must consider the agency of not only people, but also of animals and of monuments themselves. By focussing on the relationships which bound together linear earthworks and other agents, we can begin to understand the ways in which monumentalised landscapes both reflected and generated the cosmologies of prehistoric communities.
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Trindade, Thiago Berlanga. "Geoglifos, zanjas ou earthworks? Levantamento geral dos sítios arqueológicos com estruturas de terra em vala no médio rio Guaporé (RO) e análise comparada com os demais sítios no Sudoeste da Bacia Amazônica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-17092015-110343/.

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Estudo sistemático de sítios com estruturas de terra em vala (mais conhecidos por \"geoglifos\") na calha direita do médio rio Guaporé, entre as cidades de São Francisco do Guaporé e Costa Marques, estado de Rondônia. Nesta região - nos limites sudoeste da floresta tropical que recobre a maior parte da bacia Amazônica - o conhecimento prévio de tais estruturas levou à prospecção e, com efeito, identificação de novos sítios a partir da análise de imagens aéreas disponibilizadas pelo programa Google Earth 5.1. Posteriormente, a recuperação de uma série de dados sobre estes sítios foi analisada de forma comparada aos demais sítios arqueológicos com estruturas de terra similares conhecidos no sudoeste da bacia Amazônica através de um SIG (Sistema de Informações Geográficas) criado com o auxílio do programa ArcGIS 10.1. Além dos dados desse levantamento e da análise cruzada entre os atributos físicos e formais dos sítios levantados (tanto através da bibliografia consultada quanto através dos novos levantamentos remotos) esta dissertação apresenta também pequeno histórico de pesquisas sobre o tema, os conceitos teóricos que norteiam o seu estudo bem como a metodologia empregada durante seu levantamento e análise.
This work presents the general survey for new archaeological sites with anthropogenic ditched earthworks (also known as \"geoglyphs\" in Brazil) founded at the right margin of the middle Guaporé river, estate of Rondonia, Brazil. In this region - at the limits of the southwestern boarder of the Tropical Rain Forest in the Amazon river basin - the preview knowledge of structures like the ones cited above lead to the discovery of new sites out of the satellite imagery recovered from Google Earth software. After the discovery of these sites, their physical and formal attributes were analyzed comparatively with similar archaeological sites founded in western amazon with the help of an GIS (Geographical Information System) created in the ArcGIS ArcGIS 10.1 software platform. Beside the data from this survey and the comparative analysis made of them, this work also presents a little summary of the research focused on the theme, the theoretical concepts and the methodology used in the survey and analysis of these archaeological sites.

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Angel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.

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Books on the topic "Earthworks (Archaeology)"

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Alan, Davison, and Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service. Archaeology and Environment Division., eds. Earthworks of Norfolk. Gressenhall: Archaeology and Environment Division, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2003.

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Dega, Michael F. Prehistoric circular earthworks of Cambodia. Ann Arbor, MI: Bell & Howell Information and Learning Co., 2001.

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Allcroft, A. H. Earthwork of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediæval. London: Macmillan, 1985.

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Sumner, Heywood. The ancient earthworks of Cranborne Chase. Gloucester: Sutton and Wiltshire County Library, 1988.

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Phear, Sarah. The monumental earthworks of Palau, Micronesia: A landscape perspective. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd., 2007.

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Moore, Elizabeth H. Moated sites in early north east Thailand. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1988.

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Coblenz, Werner. Ostro und seine Schanze. Kamenz: Museum der Westlausitz, 1991.

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G, Marvell A., and Caseldine Astrid, eds. Investigations along Monnow Street, Monmouth. Oxford: J. and E. Hedges, 2001.

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Bittel, Kurt. Die keltischen Viereckschanzen. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag K. Theiss, 1990.

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Sharples, Niall M. Maiden Castle: Excavations and field survey 1985-86. London: Historical Buildings & Monuments Commission for England, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Earthworks (Archaeology)"

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Moraes, Claide de Paula, and Eduardo Góes Neves. "Earthworks of the Amazon." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 3491–503. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3026.

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Moraes, Claide de Paula, and Eduardo Góes Neves. "Earthworks of the Amazon." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3026-1.

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Schaan, Denise. "Geometric Earthworks of Western Amazonia." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 4551–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3029.

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Schaan, Denise. "Geometric Earthworks of Western Amazonia." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3029-1.

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Walker, John H. "Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 3503–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3031.

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Walker, John H. "Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3031-1.

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Rostain, Stéphen. "Agricultural and Social Earthworks in the Guianas." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 106–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3039.

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Rostain, Stéphen. "Agricultural and Social Earthworks in the Guianas." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3039-1.

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Rostain, Stéphen. "Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast." In The Handbook of South American Archaeology, 217–33. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74907-5_13.

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Gianotti, Camila. "Environment Transformation and Landscape Domestication in the Lowlands of Northeast of Uruguay. Earthworks as Technology for the Management of Flood Ecosystems." In South American Contributions to World Archaeology, 283–316. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73998-0_11.

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