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- Cornell, Per, 1962, et al.
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Local, regional, global : introducción
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Ingår i: "Local, regional, global : prehistoria, protohistoria e historia en los Valles Calchaguíes", editores: Per Cornell & Per Stenborg (Anales. Instituto Ibero Americano, Universidad de Gotemburgo, 6) (GOTARC. Serie C. Arkeologiska skrifter, 54) (Etnologiska studier. Världskulturmuseet i Göteborg, 46). - Göteborg : Instituto Iberoamericano, Universidad de Göteborg. - 9187484129 ; , s. 7-12
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962, et al.
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Unit 12
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Ingår i: Investigations at Pichao : introduction to studies in the Santa María Valley, North-western Argentina. Ed. Bengtsson, Cornell, Johansson & Sjödin (British archaeological reports. International series, 978). - Oxford : J. and E. Hedges. - 184171187X
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- Stenborg, Per, 1962, et al.
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Contours of the Past: LiDAR Data Expands the Limits of Late Pre-Columbian Human Settlement in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon
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Ingår i: Journal of Field Archaeology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0093-4690 .- 2042-4582. ; 43:1, s. 44-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent studies have shown that pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon undertook significant landscape modifications, including earthworks. Our fieldwork has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém Region, Lower Amazon, were not limited to the vicinities of permanent water courses, as formerly often assumed. Instead, numerous archaeological sites, dating from ca. a.d. 1300 up to the time of European colonization in the seventeenth century, have been found in an upland area known as the Belterra Plateau, south of the present-day city of Santarém. These upland sites have been found to be associated with particular features in the landscape: cavities or depressions, known locally as “Poços de Água”. LiDAR data shows that a pattern of non-randomly distributed depressions extends far into the densely forested Tapajós National Forest (Flona-Tapajós), allowing us to suggest that the expansion of inland settlement extended considerably farther to the south than what has previously been established through conventional archaeological fieldwork.
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- Söderström, Mats, et al.
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Sensor mapping of Amazonian Dark Earths in deforested croplands
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Ingår i: Geoderma. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7061 .- 1872-6259. ; 281, s. 58-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are fertile soils for agricultural production as well as important archaeological resources for understanding the pre-Columbian past of the Neotropical lowland rainforest. ADEs are threatened by expanding land exploitation and there is a need to develop efficient approaches to soil mapping and analysis for documenting these soils. In this paper we assess the potential of satellite remote sensing and proximal soil sensing to map, predict and monitor ADEs in land affected by agro-industrial development. We use instruments based on portable x-ray fluorescence (PXRF) and electromagnetic induction (EMI) as well as high-resolution satellite data (Spot 6) for detailed soil surveys at a 10-ha ADE site now mainly used for soybean production on the Belterra Plateau, Pará, Brazil. We predict the regional occurrence of ADE in a c. 250 km2 test area centred on the known ADE site São Francisco using satellite data. Multivariate adaptive regression splines models were parameterised for predictions of soil organic carbon (SOC), cation exchange capacity (CEC), phosphorus (P) and depth of the A horizon in ADEs from sensor data – both from individual sensors and in sensor combinations. Combining sensors gave the best validation results: the highest modelling efficiencies (E) were 0.70 (SOC), 0.88 (CEC) and 0.74 (for both P and A depth). The most powerful single proximal sensor outputs in the predictions were Sr from the PXRF data and magnetic susceptibility (MSa) as measured by the EMI instrument. In the regional satellite based model we located 17 previously unrecorded ADE sites > 2 ha. Ground control checks showed that 10 out of 11 sites were correctly classified. We conclude that these sensors are useful in studies of ADE in deforested cropland and provide new opportunities for detailed studies of the archaeological record.
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Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly focused on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland. Our work has revealed that pre-Columbian settlements in the Santarém region in the State of Pará, Brazilian Amazonas, were not (as formerly often assumed) limited to the vicinities of permanent water courses, such as rivers and lakes. On the contrary, the majority of region’s archaeological sites are found in an upland area known as the Belterra Plateau, situated south of the present city of Santarém. Series of radiocarbon and luminescence dates link these sites to an expansion of human settlement occurring during the period A.D. 1300–1500. The period appears to have been associated with major transformations of the prehistoric societies, significant population growth and the development of new types of water management and agriculture. The workshop Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland formed part of the IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), held in Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2014. The presenters and participants at the workshop included members of the Cultivated Wilderness-project, as well as partners and colleagues from several countries in Latin America and Europe. The contributions of the present volume span a wide range of subjects and fields, including archaeology, soil science, landscape archaeology, paleobotany, stylistic studies, historical information and digital mediation, which gives the book a broad thematic scope.
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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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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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