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Marajoara Culture

800 – 1400
Native nationSouth America

Mound-building chiefdoms at the mouth of the Amazon who raised earthen tesos above the floodwaters and made some of the New World's most elaborate painted funerary ceramics.

Mound construction and maintenance ceased around 1300, the great centres were abandoned before European contact, and the surviving Aruã peoples met the Portuguese on a depopulated Marajó.

Borders in 901 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Marajoara Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 800 · 901.

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