1. Images of Amerindians STONE- AGE archaic Green Hell Cannibal El Dorado
Hobbes
El Dorado
Columbus
STONE-
AGE
Dog-snouted
warriors
Hobbes
archaic
primitive
Rousseau
Green Hell
Léry
Garden of Eden
Amazons
Savage
Homer 1

2. Rolling Stone, 10/17/07

3. the tropical forest tribe: what you see in 20th century
The Handbook
of South American
Indians ( )
state
chiefdom
tribe
band
the tropical forest tribe:
i.e., you get in the past)
what you see in 20th century 3

4. Areas of Complex
Societies in Amazonia 4

5. 1 2 3
Amazonian Polychrome
Tradition
Marajoara
Santarém
Central Amazon

6. Caumtins (Marajoara) mound group
Elite mounds

7. Domestic mounds

8. Elite Mounds (Camutins) Regional Ceramic Traditions?
Elite Mounds (Camutins)
Regional Ceramic Traditions

9. CENTRAL
AMAZON

12. Southern Amazon
borderlands

13. Mound linked by causeways in domesticated landscapes of lowland Bolivia

15. Geoglyph sites in Acre, western Brazil

16. 1) Acre, Brazil; 2) lowland Bolivia; 3) Upper Xingu River

19. Earthworks provide key: Highly visible and datable, contiguous, and
precisely laid out

21. X6
X13

24. 5 cm

26. Manioc, the major Amazonian staple crop (domesticated by 6,000-8,000 BC, based on genetic evidence)

27. At least 138 crops with some degree of domestication were being cultivated or managed by native Amazonians at the time of European conquest (83 crops native to Amazonia).
68% of these Amazonian crops are fruit or nut trees or woody perennials (not surprising in Amazon forest).
Peach Palm

28. The Arawak
Diaspora 28 28

29. Fish farming

30. eastern lowland Bolivia
Fish-farming, Baure of
eastern lowland Bolivia
Raised Agricultural Fields,
Bolivian lowlands

32. B A 2 4 3 1 5
MIDDLE BERBICE
STUDY AREA

33. Kaurikreek: BC
Dubulay: BC BC

34. 300 m

88. The Province of the Arawaks, and the Berbice (Lokono)