Umberto Lombardo

2 months ago | nature.com | Umberto Lombardo |Christopher Bronk Ramsey |José Iriarte |Jennifer Watling

AbstractThe Casarabe culture (500–1400 ce), spreading over roughly 4,500 km2 of the monumental mounds region of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia, is one of the clearest examples of urbanism in pre-Columbian (pre-1492 ce) Amazonia. It exhibits a four-tier hierarchical settlement pattern, with hundreds of monumental mounds interconnected by canals and causeways1,2.