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In pursuit of a past Amazon : archaeological researches in the Brazilian Guyana and in the Amazon region. By Curt Nimuendajú ; a posthumous work compiled and translated by Stig Rydén and Per Stenborg : Etnologiska Studier vol. 45
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Although he died among the Tucuna Indians the 10th of December 1945, it was not until 1981 that the remains of Curt Nimuendajú were buried in São Paulo. During the greater part of those years his remains were kept in an urn at the Museu Paulista in the same city. It may be seen as a kind of irony that a manuscript describing his archaeological fieldwork in eastern Amazon and Amapá would be kept unpublished at another museum for even more years. Although a surveyor by profession, it is through his ethnographical work that Nimuendajú has become well-known as a researcher. During his lifetime he published a large number of monographs and articles on the ethnography and linguistics of lowland South America, still more has been published posthumously. His archaeological investigations, however, remain little known. Later scholars, unless having the opportunity to stay at the museum in Gothenburg, have been obliged to use second-hand information. Still, most leading Amazonists refer to Nimuendajú’s work in one way or another. The archaeological fieldwork and material described in this book resulted from a series of investigations carried out by Nimuendajú during the 1920’s. These investigations concerned various parts of eastern Amazon, as well as the area of Amapá. Although the work was carried out on the account of the Gothenburg Museum in Sweden, his vivid reports and descriptions bear witness of a genuine interest in and fascination for the Amazon past. This book includes illustrations of the archaeological material, original photographs and maps.
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962
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Archaeological Research at Hinterland Sites on the Belterra Plateau, Pará
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Ingår i: Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. ; , s. 113-126
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As only limited previous archaeological fieldwork had been carried out at upland sites on the Belterra Plateau, preparatory fieldwork included the location and delimitation of archaeological sites through regional surveys (Stenborg et al. 2012). A recurrent pattern identified and documented in these surveys on the Belterra Plateau was the association between the location of archaeological sites and the presence of formations, such as hollows or depressions, of varying size in the landscape.
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962
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Towards a Regional History of Pre-Columbian Settlements in the Santarém and Belterra Regions, Pará, Brazil
- 2016
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Ingår i: Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland / edited by Per Stenborg. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789185245666 ; , s. 9-22
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studies of the human societies that existed in the Amazon Basin prior to the European expansion into this region faces, in several ways, a more diicult task than the corresponding research on most other parts of the world. Amazonian archaeology is conducted in an environment characterized by swift processes of degradation of organic material where the cycling of nutrients takes place at a high pace. Buildings and other constructions made out of perishable material leave few traces. Historians, for their part, have faced diiculties in inding historical sources that give substantial information about the conditions that prevailed prior to European contact with the region, e.g. most European chroniclers of the 16th and 17th centuries paid limited attention to Native chronologies or accounts of pre-Columbian Amazonia. Development regarding analytical methods (in particular within Natural Science) looks promising and is sure to improve the situation over coming years. The purpose of this chapter is to situate the outcome of our recent investigations in the Santarém–Belterra Region within the larger context of data on Amazonian prehistory and history. An outline of a regional periodization covering the last centuries before the European arrival and up until the early Colonial Period (post A.D. 1639) is presented along with an explanatory model for the special form of society that emerged in the Santarém–Belterra Region during the centuries preceding the European arrival. he model is an adaptation of an economic model developed for the Central Andean area to an Amazonian case study; this also takes into consideration previous anthropological and environmental research in Santarém-Belterra region.
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- Söderström, Mats, et al.
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Using proximal soil sensors and fuzzy classification for mapping Amazonian Dark Earths
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Ingår i: Agricultural and Food Science. - 1459-6067 .- 1795-1895. ; 22:4, s. 380-389
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We tested if hand-carried field proximal soil sensing (PSS) can be used to map the distribution of anthropogenic Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE). ADE soils are rich in archaeological artefacts, nutrients, organic matter and carbon in the very stable form of pyrogenic carbon, also referred to as black carbon or biochar. To test the capacity of PSS to detect signature ADE properties we measured electrical conductivity (ECa), magnetic susceptibility (MSa) and gamma ray data by transect sampling and compared these readings, using fuzzy classification, with datasets on chemical soil properties from a 28 ha large study area located on the Belterra Plateau of the Lower Amazon in northern Brazil. Results indicate that ECa and MSa measurements were good indicators of ADE signatures, but that the gamma radiation sensor was less useful in the deeply weathered soils. PSS and fuzzy classification can be used for rapid field mapping of ADE for both agricultural and archaeological purposes.
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- Börjesson, Lisa, et al.
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A Neo-Documentalist Lens for Exploring the Premises of Disciplinary Knowledge Making
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the Document Academy. - 2376-8908. ; 3:1, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article applies a neo-documentalist approach to explore disciplinary documentation and document practices, assumed to condition disciplinary knowledge-making. The aim is to show how conceptions and materialities of what counts as documentation and documents are intertwined with changing and persisting disciplinary and sub-disciplinary practices of producing information and knowledge, of knowing, and informing. A collective, multivocal autoethnographic method is used to obtain vignettes from five areas of activity in or related to archaeology. The ongoing digitization of archaeological investigation and documentation methods, and of archaeological materials, is used as a shared departure point in the vignettes, explaining how digitization influences documents in each area of archaeology. The vignettes illustrate a multitude of conceptions and materialities of documentation and reveal frictions, both within and between sub-disciplinary areas. In light of the exploration of documentation practices in archaeology, we posit that a neo-documentalist perspective functions as a useful analytical tool for deconstructing habitual and canonical conceptions of documentation in disciplines and practices. The approach is especially powerful for pinpointing and explicating frictions between conceptions of documentation that can cause problems in information sharing and communication. We discuss the potential of the neo-documentalist approach as a practical tool to plan for and implement change in documentation and document practices.
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- Jezierski, Wojtek, 1979, et al.
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Editors’ Preface
- 2016
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Ingår i: Imagined communities on the Baltic rim : from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / Edited by Wojtek Jezierski and Lars Hermanson. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789089649836 ; , s. 9-9, s. 5-7
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962, et al.
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The Cultivated Wilderness Project – Hinterland Archaeology in the Belterra Region, Pará, Brasil
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Ingår i: Antes de Orellana. Actas del 3er Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica, edited by Stéphen Rostain. Actes & Mémoires de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines. - 1816-1278. - 9789942138927 ; 37:I
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Applying a broad approach, the Cultivated Wilderness Project aims at investigating the long-term dynamics of socio-political organization, resource exploitation strategies, subsistence economies and exchange networks in pre-Columbian Amazonia integrating approaches from the human, social and natural sciences. The preliminary results of our project challenge established views and models concerning pre-Columbian settlement patterns and location. Simultaneously, however, these new dates substantiates early historical information about hinterland settlements and presence of elements such as water reservoirs.
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962, et al.
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Digital Time-Travels: Communicating Historical GIS and TGIS-Information in Museum Environments
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Ingår i: GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences International Conference — Innovating — Collaborating — Sharing, October 7-9 2009, Academica Sinica, Taipei. Proceedings. ; , s. 365-380
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Digital Time Travels Project is an interdisciplinary, collaborative initiative which seeks to develop and evaluate new methods for the distribution and representation of digital archaeological information to the public. Toward that end, the project has developed two tools for museum and online use: The first is a physical, tactile model of the Göta Älv river valley in western Sweden, which has been combined with an overhead projector that project a TGIS-based animation of the valleys natural and cultural landscape development from roughly 12500 BP to the present onto the surface of the model. The model is designed to be touched, with various components such as archaeological sites, shoreline locations, and land elevation changes represented by different textures which are also intended to make the model more accessible to the visually impaired. Secondly, a computer application which uses GIS data, 3D scans of archaeological objects, 3D reconstructions and animations of past sites and landscapes to present information about the past in an interactive, multilingual format via touch screen interfaces as well as on the World Wide Web (web). Both the museum exhibit and the web application are under evaluation in order to determine how they are used and how to improve them. In this presentation we outline the development of these tools, evaluate their use, and discuss future plans for their improvement. The museum exhibition opened at Lödöse Museum, in the center of the Göta River Valley on June 13th 2009, and a web version of the computer application will later become available through the project website.
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