Contours of the Past: LiDAR Data Expands the Limits of Late Pre-Columbian Human Settlement in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon
Contours of the Past: LiDAR Data Expands the Limits of Late Pre-Columbian Human Settlement in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon
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过去的轮廓：激光雷达数据扩大了亚马逊河下游圣塔伦地区前哥伦布时期晚期人类居住的限制
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2018
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C. Figueiredo
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P. Stenborg;Denise Schaan;C. Figueiredo
摘要 最近的研究表明，前哥伦布时代亚马逊地区的社会进行了重大的景观改造，包括土方工程。我们的实地调查显示，亚马逊下游圣塔伦地区的前哥伦布时代定居点并不像以前通常认为的那样仅限于永久水道附近。相反，有许多考古遗址，其历史可以追溯到大约。广告。 1300 至 17 世纪欧洲殖民时期，人们在现今圣塔伦市以南贝尔特拉高原 (Belterra Plateau) 的高地地区发现了这些化石。人们发现这些高地遗址与景观中的特殊特征有关：洞穴或凹陷，当地人称为“Poços de Água”。激光雷达数据显示，非随机分布的洼地图案一直延伸到森林茂密的塔帕若斯国家森林（Flona-Tapajós），这使我们能够表明，内陆定居点的扩张比之前通过常规考古实地考察所确定的范围向南延伸得更远。
ABSTRACT Recent studies have shown that pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon undertook significant landscape modifications, including earthworks. Our fieldwork has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon, were not limited to the vicinities of permanent water courses, as formerly often assumed. Instead, numerous archaeological sites, dating from ca. a.d. 1300 up to the time of European colonization in the seventeenth century, have been found in an upland area known as the Belterra Plateau, south of the present-day city of Santarém. These upland sites have been found to be associated with particular features in the landscape: cavities or depressions, known locally as “Poços de Água”. LiDAR data shows that a pattern of non-randomly distributed depressions extends far into the densely forested Tapajós National Forest (Flona-Tapajós), allowing us to suggest that the expansion of inland settlement extended considerably farther to the south than what has previously been established through conventional archaeological fieldwork.