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<< Text Pages >> Acre 'Geoglyphs' - Boca de Acre - Misc. Earthwork in Brazil

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Multi-periodSite Name: Acre 'Geoglyphs' - Boca de Acre
Country: Brazil
NOTE: This site is 530.672 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Rio Branco  Nearest Village: Boca de Acre
Latitude: 8.72051S  Longitude: 67.17627W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5
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Misc. Earthwork in Amazonas State.
A geometric earthwork made of a squares within ditches. Connecting ditches mark paths leading away from the square.
One of many Geometric Earthworks, some only roughly circular or square, others very regular, are being found in western Brazil along the Acre River. The figures have only recently been revealed as forest has been cleared for modern agriculture and other development.

For more, see Acre 'Geoglyphs' - Cruzeirinho. Reported in "Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purus: a complex society in western Amazonia", by Parssinen, Schaan, and Ranzi, Antiquity 83 (2009): 1084-1095.
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