By Nature (2025): Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia Abstract The Casarabe culture (500–1400 CE), spreading over roughly 4,500 km2 of the monumental mounds region of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia, is one of the clearest examples of urbanism in pre-Columbian (pre-1492 CE) Amazonia. It exhibits a four-tier hierarchical settlement pattern, with hundreds of monumental mounds interconnected by…
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Journey on the Grande River concludes with discoveries | Viaje en el río Grande culmina con hallazgos
Correo del Sur: THE EXPEDITION OF A TEAM OF 15 PEOPLE LASTED 22 DAYS They find traces of sauropods and a pre-Hispanic bridge used by cultures of Chuquisaca. An expedition lasting 22 days carried out by North American explorers and a Bolivian guide along the Grande River concluded successfully with indications of two findings: one…
Ritual Site Connected to Ancient Andean Cults Discovered in Bolivia | Sitio ritual relacionado con antiguos cultos andinos descubierto en Bolivia
Ashley Cowie, Ancient-Origins: Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered 135 ancient hilltop sites including an enormous circular structure where they say members of ancient Andean cults would have once worshipped the sun. The sacred circle was in the middle of a vast ritualized landscape, which is only just coming to light. Ancient Bolivia is perhaps most…
MAIRANA: two thousand year old pyramid | Pirámide de 2 mil años de antigüedad
El Diario: They find a 2,000-year-old pyramid in Mairana The archeology team of the Department of Tourism and Culture of the Government of Santa Cruz, in cooperation with the company Bolpegas, made the discovery of a pyramid in the municipality of Mairana, a structure that is approximately 2,000 years old. The director of Tourism and…
The ancient people who reshaped the Amazon | Las misteriosas civilizaciones que inspiraron la leyenda de El Dorado
BBC: (Image credit: agefotostock/Alamy) By Shafik Meghji Dating back millennia and covering hundreds of square kilometres, these little-known ruins are changing perceptions of the Amazon and its ancient inhabitants. In a stretch of the Bolivian Amazon known as the Llanos de Moxos, the sultry port of Loma Suárez takes its name from a notorious rubber baron…
Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina
Archaeology: Pre-Columbian City in Bolivia Investigated With Airborne Lasers BONN, GERMANY—A pre-Columbian landscape inhabited by the people of the Casarabe culture between A.D. 500 and 1400 has been mapped in Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest by archaeologist Heiko Prümers of the German Archaeological Institute and his colleagues, according to a Science News report. Prümers said that the lidar…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 