@Article{IriarteRSDSNRA:2020:CoLiUn,
               author = "Iriarte, Jos{\'e} and Robinson, Mark and Souza, Jonas de and 
                         Damasceno, Antonia and Silva, Franciele da and Nakahara, Francisco 
                         and Ranzi, Alceu and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz 
                         de",
          affiliation = "{University of Exeter} and {University of Exeter} and {Universitat 
                         Pompeu Fabra} and {Instituto do Patrim{\^o}nio Hist{\'o}rico e 
                         Art{\'{\i}}stico Nacional} and {University of Exeter} and 
                         {Universidade Federal do Par{\'a} (UFPA)} and {Universidade 
                         Federal do Acre (UFAC)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Geometry by design: contribution of Lidar to the understanding of 
                         settlement patterns of the mound villages in SW Amazonia",
              journal = "Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "3",
               number = "1",
                pages = "151--169",
             keywords = "Amazon Archaeology, Lidar, Settlement Patterns, Circular Villages, 
                         Earthworks, Geoglyphs.",
             abstract = "Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia 
                         was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape 
                         engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density 
                         urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and 
                         intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to 
                         the dearth of archaeological work and the logistical difficulties 
                         associated with research in tropical forest environments. A case 
                         in point are the newly discovered Mound Villages (AD ~10001650) in 
                         the SE portion of Acre State, Brazil. Much of recent pioneering 
                         work on this new archaeological tradition has mainly focused on 
                         the excavation of single mounds within sites with little concern 
                         for the architectural layout and regional settlement patterns, 
                         thus preventing us from understanding how these societies were 
                         organised at the regional level. To address these shortcomings, we 
                         carried out the first Lidar survey with a RIEGL VUX-1 UAV Lidar 
                         sensor integrated into an MD 500 helicopter. Our novel results 
                         documented distinctive architectural features of Circular Mound 
                         Villages such as the presence of ranked, paired, cardinally 
                         oriented, sunken roads interconnecting villages, the occurrence of 
                         a diversity of mound shapes within sites, as well as the exposure 
                         the superimposition of villages. Site size distribution analysis 
                         showed no apparent signs of settlement hierarchy. At the same 
                         time, it revealed that some small groups of villages positioned 
                         along streams exhibit regular distances of 2.53 km and 56 km 
                         between sites. Our data show that after the cessation of Geoglyph 
                         construction (~AD 950), this region of SW Amazonia was not 
                         abandoned, but occupied by a flourishing regional system of Mound 
                         Villages. The results continue to call into question traditional 
                         views that portray interfluvial areas and the western sector of 
                         Amazonia as sparsely inhabited. A brief discussion of our findings 
                         in the context with pre-Columbian settlement patterns across other 
                         regions of Amazonia is conducted.",
                  doi = "10.5334/jcaa.45",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.45",
                 issn = "2514-8362",
                label = "lattes: 5174466549126882 8 IriarteRSDSNRA:2020:CoLiUn",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "iriarte_geometry.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "21 maio 2024"
}