“The seasonally flooded Llanos de Mojos region of eastern Bolivia has long been an enigmatic and little-known corner of Greater Amazonia. John Walker, with his empirically rich and theoretically path-making study, brings its past landscapes and lifeways into clear and coherent focus.”—Kent Mathewson, coeditor of Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes
“Opens up a new area of pre-Columbian socio-cultural complexity in the Amazonian lowlands. The raised and ridged agropolises described provide a welcome new set of hypotheses for those seeking to understand the bases for the evolution of civilization.”—David L. Browman, coeditor of New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology
