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Pre-Columbian human occupation patterns in the eastern plains of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazonia

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Casarabe Culture / Llanos de Mojos / Kuhikugu / Upper Xingu

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Peer-reviewed regional comparison for occupation patterns beyond the Casarabe lidar sample and for avoiding a one-polity Llanos narrative.

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Casarabe Culture / Llanos de Mojos / Kuhikugu / Upper Xingu

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Casarabe and Upper Xingu studies document distinct planned precolonial settlement landscapes; low-density urbanism is supported in those cases but should not be generalized to all of the Llanos de Mojos or Amazonia.

The features are visible, mapped, and increasingly ground-checked. The disputed part is how to name and model the societies, not whether the features exist.
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Roads, plazas, platforms, ditches, canals, and settlement hierarchies are material observations in specific regions; “city” and “proto-city” remain interpretive labels requiring regional definitions.

Answer / theory: They were urban or proto-urban in a low-density landscape sense. The label city depends on definition, but planned complexity is clear. What supports it: Regional settlement planning, roads, ditches, platforms, and settlement hierarchy. What is weak or disputed: Urban terminology can mislead if readers expect dense Old World city forms. Evidence level: Mixed but strong for planned regional settlement.
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Casarabe/Llanos de Mojos and Kuhikugu/Upper Xingu are geographically and culturally distinct cases; comparison does not make them one civilization.

Answer / theory: No. They are comparative examples from different regions with different cultural histories. What supports it: Distinct geography, archaeology, chronology, and cultural context. What is weak or disputed: Some public summaries collapse Amazonian cases into one civilization. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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