Artificial earthen mounds: a new discovery in the stilt-house sites of eastern Amazonia, Maranhão, Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.24885/sab.v39i2.1387Keywords:
Earthworks, Chiefdoms, Pile dwellings, Lowlands of Maranhão, GeotechnologiesAbstract
Artificial earthen mounds are found throughout pre-Columbian America. They provide evidence of stratified societies, in which leadership was able to mobilize great human effort for their construction. For the first time, with the application of geotechnologies, these structures have been discovered in the stilt-house archaeological sites of Eastern Amazonia, Brazil.
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Copyright (c) 2026 Alexandre Guida Navarro, Adryan Gabriel de Carvalho Moreira, Francisco Silva de Oliveira, Guilherme Aguiar Gomes, João Costa Gouveia Neto, Júlia Silva Machado, Leonardo Gonçalves de Lima, Marcelo Cancela Cohen, Maria Cristina de Souza, Maria Ecilene Nunes da Silva, Paulo César Fonseca Giannini, Rodolfo José Angulo
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