Imperfect Balance 2000
DOI: 10.7312/lent11156-015
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12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape

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“…It has been claimed that humans are the major modi¢ers of the landscape in the Lake Titicaca basin (e.g. Erickson, 1999Erickson, , 2000, but in the Rio Ilave valley human alterations are small (agricultural enhancement of soil erosion, for example) in comparison to natural landscape evolution. In most of the watersheds of the Lake Titicaca basin (Fig.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has been claimed that humans are the major modi¢ers of the landscape in the Lake Titicaca basin (e.g. Erickson, 1999Erickson, , 2000, but in the Rio Ilave valley human alterations are small (agricultural enhancement of soil erosion, for example) in comparison to natural landscape evolution. In most of the watersheds of the Lake Titicaca basin (Fig.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has been suggested that this pattern may be linked with intensified raised field agriculture around Lake Titicaca (Thompson et al, 1988) and/or may be representative of a wider spectrum of human activity in the region, including terrace construction (Erickson, 2000).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, it is argued that this protracted period of aridity may (or may not) have been influential in hastening the demise of both the Tiwanaku and Wari cultures, centred on the southern shores of Titicaca and around Ayacucho, respectively (e.g. Binford et al, 1997;Erickson, 1999Erickson, , 2000.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…T he notion of Amazonia as a pristine wilderness has now been overturned by increasing evidence for large, diverse, and socially complex pre-Columbian societies in many regions of the basin. The discovery of numerous, vast terra preta (anthropogenic dark earth) sites bordering the floodplains of major rivers, and extensive earthwork complexes in the seasonally flooded savannas of the Llanos de Mojos (northeast Bolivia), Marajó Island (northeast Brazil), and coastal French Guiana, are seen to represent examples of major human impacts carried out in these environments (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10).…”
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