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6 results for "Amazonian"

A_4_31 Credible Foundations

A_4_31 — Amazonian Indigenous Cosmologies: Tupi, Guarani & Their World

The Tupi-Guarani language family encompasses hundreds of indigenous peoples across a vast territory stretching from the Amazon Basin through eastern Brazil to the Río de la Plata region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Urugua

Tupi Guarani Amazonian cosmology Land Without Evil shamanism
ZH_3_17 Credible Archaeoastronomy

ZH_3_17 — Amazonian Astronomical Traditions

Amazonian indigenous astronomical traditions represent some of the least-documented but most sophisticated non-Western star knowledge systems, integrating stellar observation with ecological management, seasonal agricult

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D_3_20 Verified Sites & Artifacts

D_3_20 — Amazonian Geoglyphs & Pre-Columbian Earthworks

LiDAR surveys and systematic deforestation since the 1970s have revealed thousands of pre-Columbian geometric earthworks (geoglyphs) across western Amazonia, fundamentally overturning the long-held view of the Amazon as

amazonian-geoglyphs pre-columbian-earthworks terra-preta lidar-archaeology acre-geoglyphs geometric-ditched-enclosures
J_2_22 Verified Ancient Technology

J_2_22 — Terra Preta: Amazonian Dark Earth and Ancient Soil Engineering

Terra preta (Portuguese for "black earth") — scientifically termed Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE) — is a remarkably fertile, human-created soil found in patches throughout the Amazon Basin, primarily in Brazil but also in Co

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B_5_08 Verified Beings & Entities

B_5_08 — New Animism: Relational Ontology and Perspectivism

"New animism" refers to a scholarly reinterpretation of animism — the attribution of life, intentionality, personhood, or agency to non-human entities (animals, plants, stones, rivers, weather phenomena, artifacts) — tha

animism new animism relational ontology perspectivism Viveiros de Castro Descola
W_4_07 Verified World Civilizations

W_4_07 — Amazonian Traditions, Plant Teachers, and the Ayahuasca Complex

The Amazon Basin — the world's largest tropical rainforest — is home to approximately 400 indigenous groups with an extraordinary tradition of plant-based knowledge unmatched anywhere on Earth. At the center of this trad

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