UAV survey at archaeological earthwork sites in the Brazilian state of Acre, southwestern Amazonia

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Niko Anttiroiko ◽  
Justin Moat
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian State ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

scholarly journals Monumentality in Western Amazonian formative societies: geometric ditched enclosures in the Brazilian state of Acre

Antiqua ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Denise Schaan
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Amazonian Region ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

In Amazonia, monumentality has traditionally been considered characteristic of the late pre-colonial densely populated complex societies. Recent archaeological fieldwork concerning the geometric earthworks in the Brazilian state of Acre has shown that the southwestern Amazonian interfluvial zone was a significant setting for long-term large landscape modifications. We describe the geometric ditched enclosure sites of Acre as early monumental public spaces reserved for ceremonial purposes, analogous to the central Andean ceremonial-civic centers of the Formative period. The geometric earthwork sites contain contiguous ditches and embankment structures of varying forms enclosing areas typically 3-10 hectares in size. Documented cultural features are sparse within the enclosed areas. Making use of satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and pedestrian surveys, 360 earthwork enclosures have been recorded in southwestern Amazonia. Our radiocarbon dates suggest that construction and use of geometric earthworks began at the latest around 1000 BC, and prevailed in the region until 1400 AD. The relatively small number of ceramics recovered from the geometric ditched enclosure sites appear to be local substyles of the same tradition, sharing certain attributes with contemporary ceramic traditions of the upper Amazonian region. This, and consistency in ceremonial earthwork architecture, indicate close cultural interaction between communities that built and used the earthwork sites, and imply probable relationships also with the central Andean area.

scholarly journals Checklist of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of “Lago do Silêncio” Area, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Storck-Tonon ◽  
Marilene Vasconcelos Silva ◽  
Elder Ferreira Morato
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Region ◽  
Sampling Effort ◽  
Orchid Bees ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Euglossine Bee ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

This study presents a list of euglossine-bee species collected in the Lago do Silêncio region, municipality of Boca do Acre, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, southwestern Amazonia. Euglossine males were attracted to odoriferous baits on December 3 and 4, 2004. A total of 234 individuals belonging to four genera and 25 species were collected. Despite the small sampling effort, the local euglossine fauna is abundant and rich, when compared to those of other areas in the Brazilian Amazonia where higher sampling efforts were performed. Therefore, further studies in the region can be important for improving our knowledge of the bees in the Amazon region. 

scholarly journals Diversity of Pre-colonial Earthworks in the Brazilian State of Acre, Southwestern Amazonia

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 362-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Martti Pärssinen ◽  
Denise Schaan
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian State ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

scholarly journals Um Novo Espécime do Gênero Octodontobradys (Orophodontidae, Octodontobradyinae) do Mioceno Superior/Plioceno da Amazônia Sul-Ocidental, Brasil

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Edson Guilherme ◽  
Jean Bocquentin ◽  
Alice S. Porto
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Mandibular Canal ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Anterior Position ◽  
The Town ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
External Aperture

This study presents an almost complete mandible of Octodontobradys sp. from the late Miocene-Pliocene of the Solimões Formation from a locality on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, in southwestern Amazonia. The two almost complete mandibular rami, together with fragments of fossils from other taxa, were found on the left bank of the Abunã River, upriver from the town of Plácido de Castro, in the Brazilian state of Acre. The form of the symphyseal region of the mandible, and the elongated and bilobated outline of the alveoli of the m2-3-4 molariforms place the specimen clearly in the genus Octodontobradys. However, the new specimen differs from O. puruensis in (a) the anterior position of the posterior external aperture of the mandibular canal, and (b) the wider and more anteriorly inclined symphyseal region. The mandible described here represents the first specimen of the genus Octodontobradys found outside of the holotype locality, Talismã, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and enabled us to emend the diagnoses of Subfamily Octodontobradyinae.

The Historical Construction of the Brazilian State

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Julio Pinheiro Faro Homem de Siqueira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian State

scholarly journals Amazonian worlds of other-than-human beings and the Apurinã through the materiality of oral stories

Multilingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen ◽  
Francisco Apurinã ◽  
Sidney Facundes
Keyword(s):  
Language Documentation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
The People ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Origin Story ◽  
Community Meeting ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

Abstract This article looks at what origin stories teach about the world and what kind of material presence they have in Southwestern Amazonia. We examine the ways the Apurinã relate to certain nonhuman entities through their origin story, and our theoretical approach is language materiality, as we are interested in material means of mediating traditional stories. Analogous to the ways that speakers of many other languages who distinguish the entities that they talk to or about, the Apurinã make use of linguistic resources to establish the ways they interact with different entities. Besides these resources, the material means of mediating stories is a crucial tool to narrate the worlds of humans and nonhumans. Storytelling requires material mediation, and a specific context of plant substances. It also involves community meeting as a space of trust in order to become a communicative practice and effectively introduce the history of the people. Our sources are ethnography, language documentation, and autoethnography.

Patterned Villagescapes and Road Networks in Ancient Southwestern Amazonia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Sanna Saunaluoma ◽  
Justin Moat ◽  
Francisco Pugliese ◽  
Eduardo G. Neves
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Road Networks ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Remotely Sensed Imagery ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Human Transport ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia

Our recent data, collected using remotely sensed imagery and unmanned aerial vehicle surveys, reveal the extremely well-defined patterning of archaeological plaza villages in the Brazilian Acre state in terms of size, layout, chronology, and material culture. The villages comprise various earthen mounds arranged around central plazas and roads that radiate outward from, or converge on, the sites. The roads connected the villages situated 2–10 km from each other in eastern Acre. Our study attests to the existence of large, sedentary, interfluvial populations sharing the same sociocultural identities, as well as structured patterns of movement and spatial planning in relation to operative road networks during the late precolonial period. The plaza villages of Acre show similarity with the well-documented communities organized by road networks in the regions of the Upper Xingu and Llanos de Mojos. Taking into consideration ethnohistorical and ethnographic evidence, as well as the presence of comparable archaeological sites and earthwork features along the southern margin of Amazonia, we suggest that the plaza villages of Acre were linked by an interregional road network to other neighboring territories situated along the southern Amazonian rim and that movement along roads was the primary mode of human transport in Amazonian interfluves.

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