Kenneth A. Prettol’s research while affiliated with SIL International and other places

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Aboriginal Earthworks near the Mouth of the Beni, northeastern Bolivia.
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December 1989

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4 Citations

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Steven R. Pendery

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Kenneth A. Prettol

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Extensive earthworks in the form of fields, canals, mounds, and causeways have been reported for the tropical savannas in many areas of South America, but few such earthworks are known from the tropical forest habitat outside of these grasslands. This paper reports on the ditch-like earthworks at a remote site in the tropical forest of extreme NE Bolivia. In contrast to most earthworks reported elsewhere in South America, those described here are identified, based on ethnographic parallels, as canals and moats and lie on the edge of the active floodplain on the Beni River in a tropical forest environment. While such earthworks occur in the forested "islands" of the Llanos de Mojos further south, earthworks of this size and extent are unusual in the tropical forest of South America because much of this environment cannot support sedentary populations of the size and density necessary for their construction.

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Field Reports: Aboriginal Earthworks near the Mouth of the Beni, Bolivia

January 1988

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314 Reads

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25 Citations

Journal of Field Archaeology

Extensive earthworks in the form of fields, canals, mounds, and causeways have been reported for the tropical savannas in many areas of South America, but few such earthworks are known from the tropical forest habitat outside of thesegrasslands. This paper reports on the ditch-like earthworks at a remote site in the tropical forest of extreme NE Bolivia. In contrast to most earthworks reported elsewhere in South America, those described here are identified, based on ethnographic parallels, as canals and moats and lie on the edge of the active floodplain on the Beni River in a tropical forest environment. While such earthworks occur in the forested “islands”,of the Llanos de Mojos further south, earthworks of this size and extent are unusual in the tropical forest of South America because much of this environment cannot support sedentary populations of the size and density necessary for their construction.

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... En El Círculo fueron encontrados gránulos de resina, material utilizado por los Cavineños (y en la zona sólo por ellos) para recubrir vasos pintados, una costumbre suya confirmada en fuentes etnográficas (Key 1964;Métraux 1948). En este sitio, no había evidencia de palizada, al contrario de por ejemplo, en Tumichucuasitio temprano en este área (Arnold y Prettol 1988). Sin embargo, la presencia en la embocadura del río Beni de las zanjas circundantes puede demostrar sus funciones defensivas, sugiriendo tiempos poco tranquilos. ...

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UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES CARRERAS DE ANTROPOLOGÍA Y ARQUEOLOGÍA INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ANTROPOLÓGICAS Y ARQUEOLÓGICAS
Field Reports: Aboriginal Earthworks near the Mouth of the Beni, Bolivia

Journal of Field Archaeology