Recent Amazonian Archaeology
In contrast to earlier models and methods of Amazonian archaeology which emphasized such issues as agricultural origins of plants, or the analyses of ceramic series as ciphers for population dispersion. More recent research has begun to attend to historical and ethnographic populations, the spatial patterning of settlements and landscapes, and the process of cultural diaspora,long-distance trade and forms of agricultural intensification.
In particular I am thinking of work over the last decade which has focused on the Arawakan linguistic and cultural family and the cause and consequences of its dispersion over lowland South America in the last millennium. Some of this research which I will be discussing today has produced quite stunning results.
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https://www.academia.edu/215906/LOST_CITIES_OF_THE_ARAWAKS_-_BERBICE_GUYANA
Comments
Very very interesting and extensive reading….confirming how organised and disciplined the Arawak tribes of the Amazon were….advanced civilisation.
Unlike the European description of them as “uncivilised barbarians”
one must question….who were the “uncivilisedbarbarians”…..
Kamptan
History being rewritten by the conquered.