Surveying cultural and environmental history in a wide geographical context, this book examines some of the ancient cultures of Bolivian, Brazilian and Peruvian Amazonia. It demonstrates that pre-Colonial western Amazonia supported large settlements both in the varzea and terra firme environments. New finds in fact indicate the existence of complex societies even in the interfluvial tropical zones in the first centuries of the second millenium A.D. The book also contributes to our understanding of the fortifications and indigenous expansionist movements from Amazonia toward the Andes (the Tupi-Guarani), and from the Andes toward Amazonia (the Incas). The ancient Andean peoples were apparently drawn to the natural resources of Amazonian societies to a much greater extent that previously thought.
Author(s): Martti Pârssinen, Antti Korpisaari (ed.)
Series: Renvall Institute Publications 14
Publisher: Renvall Institute for Area and Culture Studies; University of Helsinki
Year: 2003
Language: English; Portuguese
Pages: 201
City: Helsinki
Tags: Исторические дисциплины;Этнография и этнология;Этнография и этнология народов Америки;Этнография и этнология народов Центральной и Южной Америки;
Preface. Martti Parssinen and Antti Korpisaari
Environmental Disturbance Factors and Human Settlement Dynamics in Western Amazonia: An Introduction. Martti Parssinen
Fortifications related to the Inca Expansion. Martti Parssinen, Ari Siiriainen and Antti Korppisaari
When did the Guarani expansion toward the Andean foothills begin? Martti Parssinen
Appendix: Three facsimile copies of titles of encomienda grants given by Andres Manso (1563). Martti Parssinen
Geometrically patterned ancient earthworks in the Rio Branco Region of Acre, Brazil: New evidence of ancient chiefdom formations in Amazonian interfluvial terra firme environment. Martti Parssinen, Alceu Ranzi, Sanna Saunaluoma and Ardi Siiriainen
Geoglifos: Patrimonio Cultural do Acre. Alceu Ranzi
