Soil properties and pre-Columbian settlement patterns in the Monumental Mounds Region of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazon

Lombardo, U.; Denier, S.; Veit, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-65-2015

Articles | Volume 1, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-65-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-65-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1, issue 1

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06 Jan 2015

Original research article |

| 06 Jan 2015

Soil properties and pre-Columbian settlement patterns in the Monumental Mounds Region of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazon

U. Lombardo, S. Denier, and H. Veit

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RC C37: 'review of Lombardo et al., "Soil properties and pre-Columbian settlement patterns..."', Christian Wells, 21 Jul 2014
- AC C48: 'Answer to reviewer 1#', Umberto Lombardo, 30 Jul 2014
RC C84: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Aug 2014
- AC C93: 'reply to reviewer #2', Umberto Lombardo, 17 Sep 2014

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Sep 2014) by Jeffrey Homburg

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Sep 2014) by Johan Six (Executive editor)

AR by Umberto Lombardo on behalf of the Authors (03 Oct 2014) Manuscript

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In the present paper we explore to what degree soil properties might have influenced pre-Columbian settlement patterns in the Monumental Mounds Region (MMR) of the Llanos de Moxos (LM), Bolivian Amazon. This study provides new data on the soil properties of the south-eastern Bolivian Amazon and reinforces the hypothesis that environmental constraints and opportunities exerted an important role on pre-Columbian occupation patterns and the population density reached in the Bolivian Amazon.