The Tapajó chiefdom at the meeting of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, makers of the baroque modelled 'caryatid' vessels and one of the largest dark-earth town sites in Amazonia.
A warlike paramount chiefdom at contact, the Tapajó were described by 16th-century chroniclers, then shattered by slaving, epidemics and the Portuguese fort founded at Santarém in 1661.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Santarém / Tapajó — the shape you scrub through changes in 900 · 1000 · 1301.
The Santarem / Tapajo dark-earth town sites within this archaeology of the Amazon.
The Tapajo chiefdom and Amazonian urbanism in this survey of the pre-Columbian Americas.