Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon

Published:2024-01-12 Issue:6679 Volume:383 Page:183-189
ISSN:0036-8075
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language:en
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Author:

Rostain Stéphen¹^ORCID,Dorison Antoine²^ORCID,de Saulieu Geoffroy³^ORCID,Prümers Heiko⁴,Le Pennec Jean-Luc⁵^ORCID,Mejía Mejía Fernando⁶^ORCID,Freire Ana Maritza⁷^ORCID,Pagán-Jiménez Jaime R.⁸^ORCID,Descola Philippe⁹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Archaeology of the Americas (UMR8096), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.

2. Archaeology of the Americas (UMR8096), Paris-1 University, Paris, France.

3. Local Heritage, Environment and Globalization (UMR 208), French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Paris, France.

4. Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen, Bonn, Germany.

5. Geo-Ocean, Brest University, CNRS, Ifremer, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (UMR6538), French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Plouzané, France.

6. Anthropology and Archaeology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

7. Museum of the Banco Central of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

8. Center for Social Research, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

9. Social Anthropology Laboratory, Collège de France, Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France.

Abstract

A dense system of pre-Hispanic urban centers has been found in the Upano Valley of Amazonian Ecuador, in the eastern foothills of the Andes. Fieldwork and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) analysis have revealed an anthropized landscape with clusters of monumental platforms, plazas, and streets following a specific pattern intertwined with extensive agricultural drainages and terraces as well as wide straight roads running over great distances. Archaeological excavations date the occupation from around 500 BCE to between 300 and 600 CE. The most notable landscape feature is the complex road system extending over tens of kilometers, connecting the different urban centers, thus creating a regional-scale network. Such extensive early development in the Upper Amazon is comparable to similar Maya urban systems recently highlighted in Mexico and Guatemala.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adi6317

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