Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

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8 Ways To Find The Best Web Design Agencies For Your…Riverbank communities in Amazonas and Rondônia are helping to piece together the puzzle of human presence in the rainforest over the last 10,000 years with archaeological remains found in their backyards and nearby their homes.

In this municipality located on Tupinambarana Island, a “floating terrace” as researchers describe, the population of some 96,000 people are discovering remnants of what were at one time the pre-Columbian societies in the region. According to Neves, some of these elements correlate with methods in use today. “Agricultural methods in Amazonia were probably similar to certain current practices, including growing plants in the backyard at home — sometimes in suspended gardens that were generally hung above abandoned canoes — for medicinal use or for seasoning food.”

The plurality of species found in these fields are evidence of the collective art of caring for the land. And cassava, which is queen of the tables across all of Amazonia, has a chapter unto itself. People live near the mills, community meeting places maintained in the backyards of peoples’ homes. A collection of local pottery in a Santa Rita de Cássia school, in Parintins municipality. Image by Maurício de Paiva.The book is a path to expanding local knowledge and the memory preserved by the people who have deep contact with the artifacts, oftentimes kept in small rooms in their homes. Some keep them in drawers of bedside tables or shoeboxes, where they interact with snapshots and other treasured objects.

Born and raised in Parintins, Machado based his research on his personal family experience with these objects. “I remember my dad and grandfather talking about these fragments on the front porch when I was still very young. We have a family collection with some 300 objects that have been in my family for four generations,” he comments.

These clues allow us to conclude that the communities were part of a complex trade network. Macro-regional stylistic patterns emerged in the sociocultural relationships between peers in their production of objects — what we call, made by GEPIA. There are pottery pieces dating back to the Pocó-Açutuba, Marajoara, Globular and Konduri styles in the region, which were probably still manufactured at the time of the European invasion.

 

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