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Multi-periodSite Name: Loma Chacolatalito
Country: Bolivia
NOTE: This site is 334.409 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Artificial Mound

Latitude: 13.02S  Longitude: 63.36W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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Artificial Mound in Bolivia. The Amazonian area of eastern Bolivia includes the wide, flat river valley of Llanos des Mojos, washed over in yearly floods. The first Europeans to enter this area found what appeared to be a primitive hunter-gatherer culture. But in the 1960's a geographer, William Denevan, saw a series of straight line causeways throughout the area, stretching over thousands of acres.

The channels between them kept the "causeways" high enough above the floodwaters to support trees.

Since then a variety of archaeological digs have found many portions of these raised areas, Loma Chacolatalito is only one, to be full of pottery - both shards of utilitarian vessels and figures. Speculation includes the idea of a sophisticated Late Archaic culture, creating massive earthworks to create fish breeding areas and support agriculture, but largely wiped out by the introduction of European diseases that spread through the native population, ahead of the actual arrivals of Europeans to the area. The controversy as to the source of these artifacts and the extent of artificial construction of earthworks continues.

Location given is very approximate, lying only within a proposed natural preserve that contains this mound and other earthworks of the prehistoric Mojos culture.

Note: Attached article - Japanese dig finds thousands of midden artifacts within the mound.
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Team finds more traces of lost Amazon civilization by bat400 on Tuesday, 28 November 2006
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Kyodo News.
A well-known Japanese archaeologist said Tuesday a team he is leading has found further evidence of a little-known ancient civilization in the Bolivian Amazon.

Katsuyoshi Sanematsu, a professor of anthropology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, completed an excavation in August of a massive man-made mound, or "loma," in Bolivia's northeastern Beni state.

Such mounds mark settlements of the Mojos civilization, which is thought to have flourished in the Amazon region for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish.

The four-week excavation confirmed that the mound, called Loma Chocolatalito, is full of pottery and animal bones.

"There were over 10,000 fragments of pottery unearthed from the top 100-cm layer of just one of the units," he said, referring to a sectional cut from the loma.

"Also we discovered numerous animal bones, some of which had been worked and painted. All this suggests that this place was densely populated in ancient times."

More information from article in Japan Times
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