More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across the basin, of 24 previously undetected pre-...

• Main Author: Peripato, Vinicius (author)
• Other Authors: Levis, Carolina (author), Moreira, Guido A (author), Gamerman, Dani (author), Steege, Hans Ter (author), Iriarte, José (author), Robinson, Mark (author), André, Braga Junqueira (author), Trindade, Thiago B (author), de Almeida, Fernando O (author), de Paula Moraes, Claide (author), Lombardo, Umberto (author), Tamanah, Eduardo K (author), Jean P H B Ometto (author), Braga, José R G (author), Campanharo, Wesley A (author), Cassol, Henrique L G (author), Peñuela Mora, María Cristina (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Earthworks; Amazonian; Columbian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade2541; http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/733