CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 74

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon

Rostain, Stéphen, Dorison, Antoine, de Saulieu, Geoffroy, Prümers, Heiko, Le Pennec, Jean-Luc, Mejía Mejía, Fernando, Freire, Ana Maritza, Pagán-Jiménez, Jaime R., Descola, Philippe·2024·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.adi6317
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

A dense system of pre-Hispanic urban centers has been found in the Upano Valley of Amazonian Ecuador, in the eastern foothills of the Andes. Fieldwork and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) analysis have revealed an anthropized landscape with clusters of monumental platforms, plazas, and streets following a specific pattern intertwined with extensive agricultural drainages and terraces as well as wide straight roads running over great distances. Archaeological excavations date the occupation from around 500 BCE to between 300 and 600 CE. The most notable landscape feature is the complex road system extending over tens of kilometers, connecting the different urban centers, thus creating a regional-scale network. Such extensive early development in the Upper Amazon is comparable to similar Maya urban systems recently highlighted in Mexico and Guatemala.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1126/science.adi6317

Cites

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

No references could be resolved yet.

Research works printed but not linked: 68

  1. G. de Carvajal, Descubrimiento del río de la Amazonas (Estudios ediciones y medios, Sevilla, [1542] 1992).
  2. 10.1038/s41467-022-31064-2 · DOI
  3. S. Rostain, Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia (Left Coast Press, 2012).
  4. S. Rostain, C. Jaimes Betancourt, Eds., Las Siete Maravillas de la Amazonia precolombina (IV Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica, Bonner Altamerika-Sammlung und Studien, Plural Editores, 2017).
  5. E. M. Redmond, C. S. Spencer, Archaeological survey in the high llanos and Andean piedmont of Barinas, Venezuela. Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2007, 86 (2007).
  6. 10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.011 · DOI · Paper page
  7. 10.1126/science.1086112 · DOI · Paper page
  8. M. Heckenberger, The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000 (Routledge, 2005).
  9. E. Neves, Sob os tempos do equinócio: Oito mil anos de história na Amazônia central (Ubu Editora, 2022).
  10. 10.5334/jcaa.45 · DOI
  11. S. Saunaluoma, J. Moat, F. Pugliese, E. G. Neves, Patterned villagescapes and road networks in ancient southwestern Amazonia. Lat. Am. Antiq. 32, 1–15 (2020).
  12. 10.1093/oso/9780198234074.001.0001 · DOI · Paper page
  13. 10.1126/science.1159769 · DOI · Paper page
  14. 10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4 · DOI · Paper page
  15. 10.1098/rspb.2015.0813 · DOI · Paper page
  16. 10.1017/laq.2022.94 · DOI
  17. P. Porras, Investigations at the Sangay mound complex, Eastern Ecuador. Natl. Geogr. Res. 5, 374–381 (1989).
  18. 10.3406/bifea.1999.1349 · DOI
  19. D. Legrand P. Baby F. Bondoux C. Dorbath S. Bes de Berc M. R. Vadeneira “El enjambre sísmico de Macas (Cordillera de Cutucú)” in La cuenca oriente: Geología y petróleo P. Baby M. Rivadeneira R. Barragán Eds. (IFEA IRD Petroecuador 2004) pp. 168–182. · DOI
  20. S. Bès de Berc P. Baby J. C. Soula J. Rosero M. Souris F. Christophoul J. Vega “La superficie Mera-Upano: marcador geomorfologico de la incision fluviatil y del levantamiento tectonico de la zona subandina ecuatoriana” in La cuenca oriente: Geología y petróleo P. Baby M. Rivadeneira R. Barragán Eds. (IFEA IRD Petroecuador 2004) pp. 153–167. · DOI
  21. P. Porras, Investigations at the Sangay mound complex, Eastern Ecuador. Natl. Geogr. Res. 5, 374–381 (1989).
  22. P. MoncayoEcheverría, Nuevas estructuras piramidales truncas en la margen izquierda del río Upano, provincia de Morona Santiago. Revista Sarance 20, 147–154 (1994).
  23. A. Rostoker “Dimension of prehistoric human occupation in the southern Ecuadorian Oriente ”thesis City University of New York (2005).
  24. P. Porras, Investigaciones arqueológicas a las faldas del Sangay, Tradición Upano (Centro de Investigaciones Arqueológicas, Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 1987).
  25. E. Salazar, Pre-Columbian mound complexes in the Upano River Valley, lowland Ecuador,in Handbook of South American Archaeology, H. Silverman, W. Isbell, Eds. (Springer, Kluwer, Plenum, 2008), pp. 263–278.
  26. S. Rostain, Tolas, terrazas y casas: Arqueología del valle del Upano. STRATA 1, e2 (2023).
  27. J. R. Pagán Jiménez S. Rostain “Uso de plantas económicas y rituales (médicinales o energizantes) en dos comunidades precolombinas de la Alta Amazonía ecuatoriana: Sangay (Huapula) y Colina Moravia (400 a.C.-1200 d.C.)” in Antes de Orellana. Actas del 3er Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica S. Rostain Ed. IFEA FLACSO Embajada de los EEUU Quito (2014) pp. 313–322.
  28. S. Rostain “La cerámica del valle del Upano Ecuador” in Cerâmicas Arqueológicas da Amazônia: Rumo a uma nova síntese C. Barreto H. Lima C. Jaimes Betancourt Eds. (MPEG Belém-do-Pará 2016) pp. 573–585.
  29. K. Bruhns, J. H. Burton, A. Rostoker, “La cerámica Incisa en Franjas Rojas: Evidencias de intercambio entre la sierra y el oriente en el Formativo Tardío del Ecuador” in En Tecnología y organización de la producción de cerámica prehispánica en los Andes, I. Shimada, Ed. (PUCP, Fondo Editorial, 1994), pp. 53–66.
  30. C. Von Hillebrandt “Evaluación de los peligros volcánicos y su mitigación en la república del Ecuador” in El paisaje volcánico de la sierra ecuatoriana P. Mothes Ed. vol. 4 of Estudios de Geografía (Corporación Editora Nacional Colegio de Geógrafos del Ecuador 1991) pp. 39–53.
  31. 10.1016/S0377-0273(99)00021-9 · DOI
  32. 10.1016/0377-0273(84)90002-7 · DOI
  33. 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107172 · DOI
  34. A. Sánchez-Polo, R. Á. Litben, Un paisaje monumental prehispánico en la Alta Amazonía ecuatoriana: Primeros resultados de la aplicación de Lidar en el valle del Upano. STRATA 1, e3 (2023).
  35. S. Rostain Ethnoarchaeologogy of the Amazonian House: Pre-Columbian and Jivaro Continuity in Ecuador. in Communities in Contact. Essays in Archaeology Ethnohistory and Ethnography of the Amerindian Circum-Caribbean C. L. Hofman A. van Duijvenbode Eds. (Sidestone Press 2011) pp. 455–475.
  36. 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.031 · DOI · Paper page
  37. Z. Kokalj R. Hesse Airborne Laser Scanning Raster Data Visualization: A Guide To Good Practice vol. 14 of Prostor kraj čas (Založba ZRC 2017).10.3986/9789612549848 · DOI
  38. 10.18268/BSGM2022v74n3a180622 · DOI
  39. G. de Saulieu S. Rostain J.-L. Le Pennec “El Formativo del Alto Pastaza (Ecuador) entre arqueología y vulcanología” in Antes de Orellana. Actas del 3er Encuentro Internacional de Arqueología Amazónica S. Rostain Ed. IFEA FLACSO Embajada de los EEUU Quito (2014) pp. 199–205.
  40. M. Cardale de Schrimpff, Caminos prehispánicos en Calima (Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales, Santafé de Bogotá, 1996).
  41. 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106312 · DOI · Paper page
  42. C. L. Erickson, “Agency, causeways, canals, and the landscapes of everyday life in the Bolivian Amazon” in Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective, J. E. Snead, C. L. Erickson, J. A. Darling, Eds. (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), pp. 204–231. · DOI
  43. W. M. Denevan, K. H. Schwerin, Antropológica 50, 3–91 (Fundación La Salle1978).
  44. E. Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow (Routledge2007).
  45. C. M. Arensberg, “The urban in crosscultural perspective” in Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, G. Gmelch, W. P. Zenner, Eds. (St. Martin’s Press, 1980), pp. 37–47.
  46. 10.2307/2256760 · DOI
  47. 10.1525/ap3a.1999.9.1.185 · DOI
  48. 10.1016/j.cities.2012.07.012 · DOI
  49. D. Marken, M. C. Arnauld, Eds., Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics (Univ. Press of Colorado, 2023).
  50. M. Heckenberger, Xingu garden cities: Amazonian urban landscapes, or what?in Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism, G. Farhat, Ed. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2020), pp. 225–262.
  51. 10.1017/CBO9780511621901 · DOI
  52. P. Descola, In the Society of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
  53. B. Franchetto, M. Heckenberger, Eds., Os povos do Alto Xingu - história e cultura (UFRJ, 2001).
  54. R. L. Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization (Thames & Hudson, 1992).
  55. 10.1007/978-0-387-74907-5_35 · DOI
  56. 10.2307/j.ctv13xps7k · DOI
  57. 10.5744/florida/9780813066905.001.0001 · DOI
  58. 10.1126/science.ade2541 · DOI
  59. R. Fletcher, Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism: A comparative view. Insights 2, 1–19 (2009).
  60. 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095852 · DOI
  61. E. Lemonnier “Agrarian settlement ecology in the Classic Maya Lowlands” in Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas L. C. Kellett E. E. Jones Eds. (Routledge 2017) pp. 167–194.
  62. 10.1126/science.aau0137 · DOI
  63. 10.1073/pnas.1910553116 · DOI
  64. 10.1163/9789004612402 · DOI · Paper page
  65. 10.7208/chicago/9780226145006.001.0001 · DOI
  66. C. Gnecco, P. Ayala, Eds., Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America (Left Coast Press, 2011).
  67. B. C. da Rocha “Ipi Ocemumuge: A regional archaeology of the Upper Tapajós River ”thesis Institute of Archaeology University College London (2017).
  68. 10.5876/9781646422869 · DOI

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Metadata

Authors
Rostain, S., Dorison, A., de Saulieu, G., Prümers, H., Le Pennec, J.-L., Mejía Mejía, F., Freire, A. M., Pagán-Jiménez, J. R., & Descola, P.
Affiliations
  • Archaeology of the Americas (UMR8096), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.
  • Archaeology of the Americas (UMR8096), Paris-1 University, Paris, France.
  • Local Heritage, Environment and Globalization (UMR 208), French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Paris, France.
  • Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen, Bonn, Germany.
  • Geo-Ocean, Brest University, CNRS, Ifremer, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (UMR6538), French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Plouzané, France.
  • Anthropology and Archaeology Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Museum of the Banco Central of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Center for Social Research, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Social Anthropology Laboratory, Collège de France, Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France.
ORCID
Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2024-01-12
Volume
383
Issue
6679
Pages
183-189
ISSN
  • 0036-8075
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.adi6317
Cited by
74
References
0
Language
en

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review