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Casarabe Culture (Llanos de Mojos)

LiDAR scanning of the Bolivian Amazon revealed a four-tiered network of pre-Hispanic cities with stepped pyramids up to 22 metres tall, causeways stretching for kilometres and extensive canal-and-reservoir water management - low-density urbanism on a scale that overturned assumptions about the Amazon's carrying capacity for complex societies.

Dated events and their evidence

• 500 CE mainstream
  Casarabe culture emerges source
• 2022 CE mainstream
  LiDAR survey reveals the full settlement network source

Where

14.8533° S, 64.4800° W

Sources

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4
• https://www.sci.news/archaeology/casarabe-settlements-10844.html

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