TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schaan,Denise Pahl
TI  - Sacred geographies of ancient Amazonia: historical ecology of social complexity 
T2  - New frontiers in historical ecology
SN  - 9781611327991
AV  - F2519.1.A6 S243 2011
U1  - 981.1981/.1981/.1 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Walnut Creek, Calif.
PB  - Left Coast Press
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - Amazon River Region
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Ethnoecology
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Social archaeology
KW  - Indian pottery
KW  - Petroglyphs
KW  - Rock paintings
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Latin America
KW  - South America
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Figures and Table; Chapter 1: Introduction: Historical Ecology and Archaeological Landscapes in Amazonia; Chapter 2: Moving Earth, Managing Water; Chapter 3: Land of the Ancestors; Chapter 4: Ponds, Lakes, and Feasts: The Cultural Geography of Anthropogenic Soils; Chapter 5: Marks on the Earth: Territoriality and Memory; Chapter 6: Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author
N2  - The legendary El Dorado - the city of gold - remains a mere legend, but astonishing new discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed. Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of ancient its cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, synthesizing exciting new evidence of large-scale land and resource management to tell a new history of indigenous Amazonia. Schaan also engages fundamental debates about the development of social
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