John H Walker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 195122 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John H Walker |
| PRENOMES | John H |
| SOBRENOME | Walker |
| ASSINATURA | WALKER J H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8095-5434 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1920 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Loss and Wonder at the World's EndLaura A.Ogden. Durham
Thinking about this elegant book brings to mind an intricate list, something that might appear in a novel by Umberto Eco or Salman Rushdie. A great list can be a work of literature, and this book is a series of significant connections between people, places, animals, plants, and things across centuries. Narrative power is generated by how Ogden presents a variety of other points of view, while still cultivating a distinctive voice. The book is re…
Starch grain analysis of ceramic residue from forest islands associated with raised fields in west central Mojos, Bolivia
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos
People as Agents of Environmental Change
The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era by Charles R. Cobb
Reviewed by: The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era by Charles R. Cobb John H. Walker The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era By Charles R. Cobb. Series: The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. The intersection between geography, anthropology, history and archaeology is a complicated and exciting place. In …
Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos
Island, River, and Field
Archaeologists have long associated the development of agriculture with the rise of the state. But the archaeology of the Amazon Basin, revealing traces of agriculture but lacking evidence of statehood, confounds their assumptions. John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon addresses this contradiction by examining the agricultural landscape and analyzing the earthworks from an archaeological perspective. The archaeological data is …
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of…
Islands in the Rainforest
South America, Archaeology of
Reflections on archaeology, poverty and tourism in the Bolivian Amazon
Purpose – This paper aims to argue that one of the ways of enabling tourism to become sustainable is for archaeologists to relate archaeology to poverty, while being aware of the process of heritage production. It proposes that one way to engage with issues of poverty is to talk to people who are trying to get out of poverty. Many archaeologists are already at work using a similar perspective not just to integrate international scholarship with l…
Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon
We present an integrated palaeoecological and archaeobotanical study of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Phytoliths from excavated raised-field soil units, together with pollen and charcoal in sediment cores from two oxbow lakes, were analysed to provide a history of land use and agriculture at the El Cerro raised-field site. The construction o…
Recent Landscape Archaeology in South America
Ceramic assemblages and landscape in the mid-1st millennium Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia
In the Central Amazon Basin, research has focused on links between spatial patterns of modern language groups and archaeological ceramic assemblages. Amazon Polychrome is a set of stylistically related ceramic assemblages from across the central Amazon dating from A.D. 600 to 1300 that have been linked to Arawak-speaking groups. A related assemblage comes from the Llanos de Mojos (Mojos) in eastern Bolivia; these San Juan ceramics, distributed al…
Social Implications from Agricultural Taskscapes in the Southwestern Amazon
Across the Americas, but particularly in the Amazon Basin, precolumbian farmers invested their labor in features such as canals, causeways, and raised fields, creating agricultural landscapes. These landscapes required organized action in order to build and maintain them. Such actions can be usefully described as "tasks" to draw specific connections between communal work and landscape features (Ingold 1993). Using two parallel examples from the p…
Amazonian Dark Earth and Ring Ditches in the Central Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Forest islands in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, have distinctive soils that fit published definitions of terra mulata, a kind of Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE). The same soils also contain ceramics and burned clay. ADE is widely distributed in Amazonia, and Mojos is an important comparative case because ADE is found far from the floodplains of the major Amazonian tributaries, alongside and within agricultural earthworks. Although Mojos soils differ f…
Precolumbian Causeways and Canals as Landesque Capital
Cost-of-illness study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Colombia
We estimated the annual cost of T2DM for Colombia from societal, Ministry of Health, and Colombian Health System perspectives. We also estimated annual direct cost per patient and the cost of treating diabetes and macrovascular complications. The economic burden is substantial and comparable to results for other countries. The model showed a logical disease progression
Pre-Columbian Ring Ditches along the Yacuma and Rapulo Rivers, Beni, Bolivia
Pre-Columbian farmers built a variety of earthworks in the Llanos de Mojos, part of the Bolivian Amazon. Raised fields, canals, causeways, and mounds of various types in this region date to ca. 800 B.C.–A.D. 1600. In central Mojos, archaeological work was carried out along the Yacuma, a large west-bank tributary of the Mamoré River. Four ring ditches and two areas of associated raised agricultural fields were mapped. The Global Positioning System…
Estimation of travel distances with the weighted lp norm
Raised Field Abandonment in the Upper Amazon
Manuel Gálvez y la soledad argentina
The period from the 1940's to the 1960's was marked in Argentine literature by the so-called existentialist novel, represented by authors like Onetti, Mallea and Sábato. Manuel Gálvez appears at first sight to belong chronologically and thematically to this group, sharing their concern with Argentine identity and with the tragic isolation of man, the anguished search for the meaning of life. But closer examination reveals that Gálvez inhabited an…
The Portrayal of Immigration in Nineteenth Century Argentine Fiction (1845-1902)
Coöperative Production
Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon
We present an integrated palaeoecological and archaeobotanical study of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Phytoliths from excavated raised-field soil units, together with pollen and charcoal in sediment cores from two oxbow lakes, were analysed to provide a history of land use and agriculture at the El Cerro raised-field site. The construction o…
Social Implications from Agricultural Taskscapes in the Southwestern Amazon
Across the Americas, but particularly in the Amazon Basin, precolumbian farmers invested their labor in features such as canals, causeways, and raised fields, creating agricultural landscapes. These landscapes required organized action in order to build and maintain them. Such actions can be usefully described as "tasks" to draw specific connections between communal work and landscape features (Ingold 1993). Using two parallel examples from the p…
Recent Landscape Archaeology in South America
Amazonian Dark Earth and Ring Ditches in the Central Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Forest islands in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, have distinctive soils that fit published definitions of terra mulata, a kind of Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE). The same soils also contain ceramics and burned clay. ADE is widely distributed in Amazonia, and Mojos is an important comparative case because ADE is found far from the floodplains of the major Amazonian tributaries, alongside and within agricultural earthworks. Although Mojos soils differ f…
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of…
Ceramic assemblages and landscape in the mid-1st millennium Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia
In the Central Amazon Basin, research has focused on links between spatial patterns of modern language groups and archaeological ceramic assemblages. Amazon Polychrome is a set of stylistically related ceramic assemblages from across the central Amazon dating from A.D. 600 to 1300 that have been linked to Arawak-speaking groups. A related assemblage comes from the Llanos de Mojos (Mojos) in eastern Bolivia; these San Juan ceramics, distributed al…
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
The Portrayal of Immigration in Nineteenth Century Argentine Fiction (1845-1902)
Estimation of travel distances with the weighted lp norm
Reflections on archaeology, poverty and tourism in the Bolivian Amazon
Purpose – This paper aims to argue that one of the ways of enabling tourism to become sustainable is for archaeologists to relate archaeology to poverty, while being aware of the process of heritage production. It proposes that one way to engage with issues of poverty is to talk to people who are trying to get out of poverty. Many archaeologists are already at work using a similar perspective not just to integrate international scholarship with l…
Coöperative Production
The Portrayal of Immigration in Nineteenth Century Argentine Fiction (1845-1902)
Manuel Gálvez y la soledad argentina
The period from the 1940's to the 1960's was marked in Argentine literature by the so-called existentialist novel, represented by authors like Onetti, Mallea and Sábato. Manuel Gálvez appears at first sight to belong chronologically and thematically to this group, sharing their concern with Argentine identity and with the tragic isolation of man, the anguished search for the meaning of life. But closer examination reveals that Gálvez inhabited an…
Raised Field Abandonment in the Upper Amazon
Estimation of travel distances with the weighted lp norm
Pre-Columbian Ring Ditches along the Yacuma and Rapulo Rivers, Beni, Bolivia
Pre-Columbian farmers built a variety of earthworks in the Llanos de Mojos, part of the Bolivian Amazon. Raised fields, canals, causeways, and mounds of various types in this region date to ca. 800 B.C.–A.D. 1600. In central Mojos, archaeological work was carried out along the Yacuma, a large west-bank tributary of the Mamoré River. Four ring ditches and two areas of associated raised agricultural fields were mapped. The Global Positioning System…
Cost-of-illness study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Colombia
We estimated the annual cost of T2DM for Colombia from societal, Ministry of Health, and Colombian Health System perspectives. We also estimated annual direct cost per patient and the cost of treating diabetes and macrovascular complications. The economic burden is substantial and comparable to results for other countries. The model showed a logical disease progression
Precolumbian Causeways and Canals as Landesque Capital
Ceramic assemblages and landscape in the mid-1st millennium Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia
In the Central Amazon Basin, research has focused on links between spatial patterns of modern language groups and archaeological ceramic assemblages. Amazon Polychrome is a set of stylistically related ceramic assemblages from across the central Amazon dating from A.D. 600 to 1300 that have been linked to Arawak-speaking groups. A related assemblage comes from the Llanos de Mojos (Mojos) in eastern Bolivia; these San Juan ceramics, distributed al…
Social Implications from Agricultural Taskscapes in the Southwestern Amazon
Across the Americas, but particularly in the Amazon Basin, precolumbian farmers invested their labor in features such as canals, causeways, and raised fields, creating agricultural landscapes. These landscapes required organized action in order to build and maintain them. Such actions can be usefully described as "tasks" to draw specific connections between communal work and landscape features (Ingold 1993). Using two parallel examples from the p…
Amazonian Dark Earth and Ring Ditches in the Central Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Forest islands in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, have distinctive soils that fit published definitions of terra mulata, a kind of Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE). The same soils also contain ceramics and burned clay. ADE is widely distributed in Amazonia, and Mojos is an important comparative case because ADE is found far from the floodplains of the major Amazonian tributaries, alongside and within agricultural earthworks. Although Mojos soils differ f…
Recent Landscape Archaeology in South America
Reflections on archaeology, poverty and tourism in the Bolivian Amazon
Purpose – This paper aims to argue that one of the ways of enabling tourism to become sustainable is for archaeologists to relate archaeology to poverty, while being aware of the process of heritage production. It proposes that one way to engage with issues of poverty is to talk to people who are trying to get out of poverty. Many archaeologists are already at work using a similar perspective not just to integrate international scholarship with l…
Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon
We present an integrated palaeoecological and archaeobotanical study of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Phytoliths from excavated raised-field soil units, together with pollen and charcoal in sediment cores from two oxbow lakes, were analysed to provide a history of land use and agriculture at the El Cerro raised-field site. The construction o…
South America, Archaeology of
Islands in the Rainforest
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of…
Island, River, and Field
Archaeologists have long associated the development of agriculture with the rise of the state. But the archaeology of the Amazon Basin, revealing traces of agriculture but lacking evidence of statehood, confounds their assumptions. John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon addresses this contradiction by examining the agricultural landscape and analyzing the earthworks from an archaeological perspective. The archaeological data is …
Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos
Earthworks of the Llanos de Mojos
People as Agents of Environmental Change
The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era by Charles R. Cobb
Reviewed by: The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era by Charles R. Cobb John H. Walker The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era By Charles R. Cobb. Series: The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. The intersection between geography, anthropology, history and archaeology is a complicated and exciting place. In …
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
Starch grain analysis of ceramic residue from forest islands associated with raised fields in west central Mojos, Bolivia
Loss and Wonder at the World's EndLaura A.Ogden. Durham
Thinking about this elegant book brings to mind an intricate list, something that might appear in a novel by Umberto Eco or Salman Rushdie. A great list can be a work of literature, and this book is a series of significant connections between people, places, animals, plants, and things across centuries. Narrative power is generated by how Ogden presents a variety of other points of view, while still cultivating a distinctive voice. The book is re…
Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (13 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Amazon rainforest (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Geology (5 obras)