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Chapter 17 - Eastern South America and the Amazon: A New Synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Karen Olsen Bruhns
Karen Olsen Bruhns
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San Francisco State University
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The northern and eastern lowlands of the South America continent are marked by extreme regional diversity of landforms coupled with the ease of communication (by canoe) over immense distances. In the Amazon proper numbers of autochthonous kingdoms have been delineated where as in the Orinoco plains and those of the Llanos de Mojos in Bolivia cultures features built up residential (islands) connected by long causeways and drain field systems prevailed.

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Ancient South America , pp. 336 - 370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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