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Occupation redundancy and the creation of landscape mosaics in the central Amazon

Eduardo Neves (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

Abstract

The occupation of archaeological sites in the central Amazon from the early first millennium AD onwards show a remarkable redundancy, despite the region's large geographical extent. This paper examines this trend, and proposes that such redundancy created landscape mosaics that structured the process of human occupation of the area all the way to the present, even if native populations had mostly disappeared from this area by the early nineteenth century AD.