Amazonia and the Orinoco: Rivers, Landscapes, and Living Heritage
Llanos de Moxos · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Baures and wetland fishery contexts

Baures fish-weir landscapes (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)

Channels, embankments and ponds provide evidence for skilled work in seasonal floodplains. Their proposed operation lies between capture and management, without necessarily matching modern aquaculture categories.

Wetland engineering and livelihood context Late precolonial wetland systems; construction dates and continuing uses need local evidence Landscape survey, earthwork analysis, hydrology, ecological modeling and archaeological field accounts. Baures public town orientation, Beni, Bolivia. Approximate public orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, political, customary or sovereignty boundary. Not a burial, ancestral-remains, restricted rock-art or sacred-site location, private earthwork, Indigenous village or contact point for isolated peoples; no access or collecting permission is implied.
Resumen

Comunidades, paisajes y evidencias

Ríos, bosques, humedales y conexiones

The eastern Moxos wetlands combine seasonal floodplains and wooded areas. A town orientation does not reveal restricted places or trace water-control boundaries.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Large-scale coordination is a research inference; the works do not identify one homogeneous state or every worker's political allegiance.

Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living knowledge and archaeological interpretation are distinct kinds of evidence. The atlas offers no instructions for altering waterways or entering protected or customary areas.

Engineering An interpreted landscape fishery

The 2000 study identifies an extensive system through field evidence, rather than treating the wetlands as unworked nature.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Work Connected features matter

The project account considers channels, ponds and causeways together; their functions remain attributed.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Ecology Capture and farming are not a simple binary

The 2018 analysis models floodplain fishery operation, not every ancient fisher's exact practice.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Wetland works develop

    The field studies investigate constructed features without assigning one unsupported date to the entire system.

  2. Landscape study published

    The original study advances a large-scale fishery interpretation.

  3. Project account

    The museum publication describes landscape archaeology and proposed fish-management practices.

  4. Operation reassessed

    Spatial and ecological analysis examines how parts of the system may have worked.

Cultura e idioma

Alimentación, artesanía, lengua, trabajo y creencias

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • The registered evidence does not securely establish every resident's spoken language; no language is assigned from material style alone.

Familia lingüística: No secure assignment from this evidence

Fishing and landscape work challenge a single farming-versus-foraging divide.

A functioning model is not an eyewitness account of every past use.

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Basada en el contenido aprobado del perfil Las citas utilizan los identificadores de fuentes de abajo Sin contexto de cuenta ni de ADN

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Registro de pruebas

Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer Indigenous and community-linked institutions, national heritage authorities, accountable archaeological projects, original studies and institutional collections documentation. Source titles, publishers, dates and stable links identify the evidence. Distinguish a conference abstract, bibliographic record, field study, scholarly synthesis, heritage proposal and completed interpretation. Attribute written and oral accounts by composition date, genre, language, audience, transmission and viewpoint.

  1. C1

    Orinoquia: The Archaeology of the Orinoco River Basin

    Journal of World Prehistory 16, author-shared scholarly synthesis · Attributed scholarly synthesis; models are not direct observations of all communities · 2002

  2. C2

    Chiribiquete National Park: The Maloca of the Jaguar

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Institutional heritage record; individual panel chronology requires separate evidence · Inscribed 2018; record accessed 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    Nuevos aportes a la arqueología del sitio Saladero, bajo Orinoco, Venezuela

    José R. Oliver, UCL, author-shared conference paper · Original conference research; not all interpretations are final consensus · Presented 2013; author record 2014

  4. C4

    A fase Açutuba: um novo complexo cerâmico na Amazônia Central

    Arqueología Suramericana 2(1), World Archaeological Congress archive · Original archaeological study in archived journal issue · 2006

  5. C5

    Early and Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in Western Amazonia: The Hidden Shell Middens

    PLOS ONE · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2013-08-28

  6. C6

    Paleoindian cave dwellers in the Amazon: research annotation

    Library of Congress, Handbook of Latin American Studies · Institutional critical bibliographic annotation, not a new excavation · 1996 study; annotation accessed 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon

    Nature 606, 325-328 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2022

  8. C8

    Ecological Modelling and Indigenous Systems of Resource Use: Examples from South Venezuela

    Antropológica 55, 51-72, UNAM archive · Original methodological and ethnographic analysis, not a prehistoric social census · 1981

  9. C9

    Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia

    PNAS 107, 7823-7828 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2010

  10. C10

    The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery

    Scientific Reports · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2018

  11. C11

    Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon

    Science Advances 9, eadh8499 · Original collaborative research, including Kuikuro Indigenous Association contributors · 2023

  12. C12

    En riesgo continuo por el ecoturismo: la realidad de las áreas protegidas en el Amazonas

    Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia · Protected-area care and access-risk guidance, not visitor permission · 2025-12-12

  13. C13

    Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns

    Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian · Comparative collections ethics, not site-specific cultural consent · Institutional policy resource accessed 2026-10-20

  14. S1

    An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon

    Nature 408, 190-193 · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2000

  15. S2

    Precolumbian Fish Farming in the Amazon

    Penn Museum, Expedition · First-person project report; atlas paraphrases do not impersonate the researcher · 2001

  16. S3

    The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery

    Scientific Reports · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · 2018

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026