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Amazon River --- Amazonas River --- Orellana River --- Rio Amazonas --- Río de las Amazonas --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish. --- Spanish literature --- History of Latin America

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Las notas que siguen, tomadas de mi diario de viaje, se refieren a los principales episodios de un recorrido realizado en 1886-1887, a través del continente sudamericano, del Pacífico al Atlántico, de la costa del Perú a la desembocadura del río Amazonas. […] No queda ninguna América por descubrir. ¿Cuántos, desde hace tres siglos, han escalado la cordillera y descendido en balsas o piraguas por los afluentes del rey de los ríos? Aventureros en busca de un El Dorado, misioneros intrépidos, hombres de espadas, hombres de fe, hombres de ciencia. […] No sé qué filósofo ha dicho que los descubrimientos en su mayoría no son más que antiguas verdades perdidas y reencontradas. Sin llevar tan lejos la paradoja, hay que reconocer que, a menudo, el explorador moderno se limitará a observar lo que otros ya han visto. Sin embargo, si los itinerarios se cruzan en el mapa, esa vasta red no es tan densa como para que no sea posible pasar entre sus mallas. En un comienzo me había propuesto partir de las mesetas del Ecuador y bajar a la cuenca del Amazonas siguiendo el valle del río Pastaza. […] Por desgracia, el volcán Tunguragua […], se había reanimado de pronto unas semanas solamente antes de mi llegada (enero de 1886). […] debí renunciar a organizar la expedición en este sentido, y me hizo tomar la decisión de intentar la travesía del continente tomando como punto de partida la costa peruana. El orden en que se presentan estas notas testimonia estos bruscos cambios de dirección impuestos por las circunstancias. Corresponde, por lo demás, a las grandes divisiones del país: la costa, muchas veces descrita, la Cordillera, y, en fin, la región amazónica. Marcel Monnier

Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Monnier, Marcel, --- Travel --- South America --- Amazon River --- Description and travel. --- Amazonas River --- Orellana River --- Rio Amazonas --- Río de las Amazonas --- Description and travel --- situation économique --- Andes --- Équateur --- Amazonie --- Amérique du Sud --- récit de voyage --- situation sociale --- Pérou --- XIXe siècle --- voyage --- géographie --- espace urbain --- espace rural

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Amazon River. --- Columbia River. --- Oregon --- Amazone, Fleuve. --- Columbia, Fleuve. --- Orégon --- Description and travel. --- Descriptions et voyages. --- River of the West (B.C.-Or. and Wash.) --- West, River of the (B.C.-Or. and Wash.) --- Amazonas River --- Orellana River --- Rio Amazonas --- Río de las Amazonas --- Description and travel

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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.

Archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Soil science --- Amazon River Region --- Amazon River --- Antiquities. --- Environmental conditions. --- History. --- Archeology --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Amazonas River --- Orellana River --- Rio Amazonas --- Río de las Amazonas --- Amazonia --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Methodology --- landscape archaeology --- complementary production --- santarém --- amazonian dark earh (ade) --- poços de água --- pre-columbian archaeology --- curt nimuendajú --- paleobotany --- cultivated wilderness --- ethnohistory --- amazonian inland --- tapajós --- environmental history --- terra preta --- pottery studies