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Anthropogenic indicators and mapping of socio-spatial events: aid to human retrospective in the Brazilian Amazon

Indicadores antropogénicos y mapeo de eventos socio-espaciales: subsidio a la retrospectiva humana en la Amazonía brasileña

Abstract

The Amazon is a complex mosaic of interwoven human-natural systems that is the result of a lengthy process of occupation and indicates substantial potential to humanize the region, in which the search for answers, or part of them, is to impartially analyze its socio-spatial events and forms of use of natural resources. The objective of this work is to describe the socio-spatial events of human groups within the natural domains of the Brazilian Amazon to establish a chronological sequence of human actions and the historical periodization of the dynamics of occupation processes in the Holocene Amazon. The methodological supports included survey, cartography, and analysis of the anthropogenic increment of a set of traces of human action contained in the physiographic fabric of landscapes of natural systems. The results pointed to a marked mosaic of anthropogenic evidence, historically produced and accumulated, triggering wide geographic variability.

Keywords:
Amazon; Natural domain; Holocene; Anthropogenization

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