The Upper Amazon

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The Upper Amazon is a geocultural entity covering most of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon and is distinct from the rest of Amazonia. This notion of Upper Amazon was popularized by the archaeologist Donald Lathrap in the 1970s to describe the cultural specificities of this region. However, as archaeologists have mostly worked in the Andes, the human past of the Upper Amazon is considerably less well known than that of the Cordillera. On the basis of recent investigations, four successive main sociocultural periods have been defined in the Indigenous history of the Upper Amazon: (1) a common beginning between the Andes and the Upper Amazon (3300 BC to 300 AD), (2) decadence of a subtle marriage of Andean and Amazonian traits (300–900 AD), (3) “Amazonification” of the Upper Amazon (900–1700 AD), and 4) revived intermixing of cultural traits between the Andes and the Upper Amazon (1700 AD on).
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Authors Stéphen Rostain
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.59
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.59
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