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

Casarabe, Cotoca, and Landívar settlement networks

Cotoca / Landívar (site or scholarly name, not an established ancient self-designation)

Monumental platforms, causeways and canals support study of low-density settlement networks in a seasonal landscape. Food and water-management interpretations require the evidence and scale of each study.

Low-density urban and water-management context Approximately 500-1400 CE for the Casarabe archaeological classification Lidar, excavation, dating, settlement analysis, landscape archaeology and environmental evidence. Trinidad public city 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

Cotoca and Landívar are distinct centers in the savanna-forest mosaic. Trinidad is an orientation rather than a location for excavation or burial features.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Differentiated centers and connecting infrastructure support political interpretations without revealing every institution or resident's allegiance.

Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

New survey and food-production research revise earlier models. Results from a particular sampled system cannot describe every Moxos community or all Amazonian diets.

Networks Distinct large centers

The 2022 study identifies Cotoca and Landívar within a differentiated settlement system, not as one combined city.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Food A bounded production study

The 2025 study interprets evidence for maize cultivation in its sampled landscape, not every household's entire diet.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Research Fieldwork complements lidar

DAI records excavation and later mapping phases; mapped extent is not a sovereignty or ethnic boundary.

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. Casarabe-associated contexts

    This broad classification contains changes; infrastructure cannot make all settlements equally old.

  2. Project excavations

    DAI documents investigations in regional platform settlements before later lidar campaigns.

  3. Lidar study

    The study develops an interpretation of low-density urban networks.

  4. Food-production interpretation

    A landscape study links evidence to maize production while retaining its specific geographical scope.

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

Low-density urbanism is not a modern city template.

Water works and household labor belong within political history.

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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

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

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

  15. S2

    Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia

    Nature 639, 119-123 · Original landscape and food-production study; site scope does not cover all Amazonia · 2025

  16. S3

    Llanos de Mojos

    Deutsches Archäologisches Institut · Original archaeological study or institutional project account · Project record accessed 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026