A low-density urban society of the seasonally flooded Bolivian savannas whose LiDAR-revealed centres, with 22-metre platform pyramids and kilometres of causeways and canals, rewrote what was thought possible in Amazonia.
The great centres of Cotoca and Landívar were abandoned around 1400, the integrated causeway-and-canal network falling out of use roughly a century before any European reached the region.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Casarabe Culture —
the shape you scrub through changes in 500 · 901.
Moments from the Chronicle
500Casarabe culture takes root in the Mojos In the seasonally flooded savannas of the Bolivian Amazon, the Casarabe culture begins building raised fields and habitation mounds east of present-day Trinidad, the foundation of a low-density urban world.