New evidence for late first-millennium AD stilt-house settlements in Eastern Amazonia

Navarro, Alexandre Guida

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.162

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“…Xingu) during the 19th century (Kohl, 2015: 175–193). For the same groups, including the Xingu, recent archeological evidence is showing unexpected architectural traits for local longhouses, including pilotis (Navarro, 2018).…”

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“…Although the traditional maloca in the region can arguably be characteristically defined as a continuous roof-wall or wall-less house, this cannot be a sweeping generalization. The diffusion and shared commonalities of the architecture of the longhouse in a wider range in the Amazon in pre-Colombian period is just beginning to resurface in recent archeological studies (Navarro, 2018). This is also the case for the use of the palm in ancient construction in other areas of South America (Acosta and Ríos Román, 2013; Bonomo and Enrique Capeletti, 2014).…”

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The Northwestern Amazon malocas: Craft now and then

Gutiérrez

2019

Journal of Material Culture

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In the Northwestern Amazon, resilience in construction has been traditionally conceived as a capacity for social, climatic, and spatial adaptability. Through methods of seasonal reconstruction based on lightweight enclosures made mainly from palms, vernacular housing, or malocas, in the region have proven efficient from environmental, human comfort, and cultural perspectives. Intricately woven palms, layered to shape roofs and walls, form enclosures that repel water, insulate heat, and reflect light while embodying specific projections of the body in space as the basis of unique cosmological perspectives of spatial organization. The palm-weave is the very root of the construction ethos of Northwestern Amazon housing. In the last few decades, these complex woven enclosures have been progressively replaced with industrial panels made of materials such as galvanized steel or cement, simply because of their low economic cost and availability. The loss of the palm-weave in roof-walls is not a mere replacement but a supplantation of material culture and has profound environmental, human comfort, and social implications. In a context where resilience has been shaped cognitively and physically through a plant-based material culture of adaptability, what is the extent of a potential craft disruption? The supplantation of the palm-weave technical practice implies a loss of social engagement in a craft that has defined an understanding of belonging and inhabitation. This article addresses how the geometric, scale, and spatial characteristics originating from the distinctive palm-weave craft of the Western Amazon malocas of the Bora, Miraña, Muiname (Witoto), Murui (Witoto), Yukuna, Tikuna, and Makuna groups perform as a living entity. By questioning the differences between craft preservation vis-à-vis reclamation, the author explores the specific architectural and social characteristics that are locally valued in the inherited craft to create a path for discussing future generations of palm-weave in the Northwestern Amazon.

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The Northwestern Amazon malocas: Craft now and then

Gutiérrez

2019

Journal of Material Culture

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“…The stilt villages were ancient dwellings (palafittes) built on piles over a lake. Stumps or trunks of trees served as a support for the superior buildings of the Ecology as Cosmology: Animal Myths of Amazonia DOI: http://dx.doi.org /10.5772/intechopen.94177 villages [11]. Traces of these wooden stilts are located within rivers and lakes and are shown only at the time of drought.…”

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Ecology as Cosmology: Animal Myths of Amazonia

Navarro¹

2021

Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia

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Amazonian ethnography is relied on the creation of the world by Animals as the Anaconda, considered an ancestral creator. The history that myths tell is that the Amazon River is the metaphor of an Anaconda because it has meanders like this snake and it is a large reptile-like the river itself. As far as Archaeology, many of these myths were represented in archaeological ceramic as Cosmology metaphor. Some animals like birds were presented as a ceramic rattle which noise is a shamanic trait of Amazonian Indian Cosmology. This chapter shows how the Stilt Villagers of the Eastern Amazonian built their Cosmology based on the Animals of their environment’s Ecology.

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“…As estearias são moradias suspensas pré-coloniais construídas com troncos de árvores em alusão à palavra esteio (CORRÊA et al, 1991;CORREIA LIMA;LIMA AROSO, 1991;LOPES, 1924;MARTIN, 1996;NAVARRO, 2013NAVARRO, , 2016NAVARRO, , 2018PROUS, 1992) coletada pelos primeiros escritores nos locais por eles visitados e que se relacionavam à área destas aldeias, correspondendo às palafitas pré-históricas brasileiras.…”

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Os vasilhames com apliques de anuros das estearias e a identificação biológica das espécies

Navarro

Rodrigues

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2020

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Este artigo apresenta os resultados da análise dos vasilhames com apliques de anuros das cerâmicas arqueológicas oriundas de coletas sistemáticas nas estearias maranhenses associando-os às espécies biológicas. Parte-se, portanto, de um estudo interdisciplinar que busca atentar para a importância deste tipo de abordagem ainda pouco utilizada pelos arqueólogos brasileiros, sobretudo na Amazônia, cuja imagética arqueológica associada a sapos e rãs é recorrente no material arqueológico desta região. Apresentam-se os apliques de anuros, sua análise tecnológica, as formas dos vasilhames e a identificação das espécies, fomentando a interpretação dos resultados com enfoque na relação entre cultura material e biologia.

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New evidence for late first-millennium AD stilt-house settlements in Eastern Amazonia

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Cited by 24 publications

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The Northwestern Amazon malocas: Craft now and then

The Northwestern Amazon malocas: Craft now and then

Ecology as Cosmology: Animal Myths of Amazonia

Os vasilhames com apliques de anuros das estearias e a identificação biológica das espécies

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