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In Quest of Prehistoric Amazonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Warren R. DeBoer ,
Keith Kintigh  and
Arthur G. Rostoker
Warren R. DeBoer
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367
Keith Kintigh
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
Arthur G. Rostoker
Affiliation:
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016
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Abstract

Meggers's commentary does not effectively address our critique of the seriational argument that large Amazonian sites always represent occupational palimpsests. As a consequence, more general claims about the limitations that Amazonian environments posed for prehistoric cultural development based on this same argument remain unconvincing and fail to account for relevant variability in the archaeological record.

Resumen

Resumen

El comentario de Meggers no logra cubrir nuestra crítica de su postura seriacional, de que sitios Amazónicos grandes deben corresponder a palimpsestos de distintos asentamientos. Como consequencia declaraciones mas generales sobre las limitaciones que presentaba el medio ambiente Amazónico por el desarollo cultural prehistorico, en base a la misma postura, quedan sin convencer, a mas de que considera la variabilidad pertinente a los antecedentes arqueológicos.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 326 - 327
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2001

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