کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7440405 1483841 2018 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: A case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: A case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper applies concepts from the fields of historical ecology and human niche construction theory to interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data from the Brazilian state of Acre, southwest Amazonia, where modern deforestation has revealed hundreds of pre-Columbian monumental earthworks called 'geoglyphs', largely built between ca. 2000-650 cal. BP (calibrated years before present). Our main objective was to move away from the debate which currently dominates Amazonian archaeology over large- vs. small-scale pre-Columbian environmental impacts, and instead offer a more nuanced interpretation of human-environment interactions in our specific study area. Despite the difficulties presented by working with an incomplete regional archaeological dataset, interpreting our findings in light of these theoretical frameworks allowed us to re-think landscape history and ask new questions about a possible relationship between anthropogenic forests, symbolic capital and monument building in our particular study area.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology - Volume 50, June 2018, Pages 128-139
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