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Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia: An Ethnohistorical Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Warren R. DeBoer
Warren R. DeBoer*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Archaeology, Queens College, Cuny, Flushing, NY 11367
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Abstract

Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that unoccupied buffer zones were a pervasive feature of the aboriginal cultural ecology of Amazonian floodplains. Buffer zones in Ucayali culture history are examined in detail, and the more general implications that such zones have for interpretations of Amazonian prehistory and ecology are discussed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 364 - 377
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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