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Pre-Columbian earth-builders settled along the entire southern rim of the Amazon

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AT-1024

Amazon Lidar Discoveries

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Primary 2018 Nature Communications satellite, field, dating, and modeling study for Upper Tapajós and southern-rim earthworks; supports broad regional occupation without demonstrating one culture or empire.

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Amazonian Lost Cities and Garden Urbanism

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Peer-reviewed satellite, field, dating, and modeling study supporting broad southern-rim earthwork settlement without implying a single culture.

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Amazon Earthworks, Geoglyphs, and Water Systems

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Peer-reviewed satellite, field-validation, ceramic and dating study; verifies broad southern-rim earthwork distribution while distinguishing modeled from confirmed sites.

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Amazon Lidar Discoveries

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Amazonian Lost Cities and Garden Urbanism

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Amazon Earthworks, Geoglyphs, and Water Systems

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Supporting citation for public claim

Upper Xingu, Casarabe, the southern Amazon rim, and Upano provide regionally bounded evidence for planned pre-Columbian settlements and human-managed landscapes; “garden urbanism” is a useful but non-universal model.

Multiple regions show strong evidence, but Amazonia is too diverse for one model to explain every place.
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Field-validated earthworks, geoglyph landscapes, and lidar-mapped causeways, canals, and reservoirs in studied Amazonian regions document substantial precolonial Indigenous landscape engineering.

The features are physically measurable and often confirmed by multiple archaeological methods.
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Peer-reviewed lidar and field studies document complex planned Indigenous settlements and engineered landscapes in several Amazonian regions, not one pan-Amazonian civilization.

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