El Dorado chronicles
Images of cities and paradise between the Andes and Central Amazon in the XVI century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.130857Abstract
The goal of this article is to discuss certain aspects described by the friar Gaspar Carvajal in his chronic “Discoveries of the Amazon river”, written in the XVI century. This is one of the first historical resources about the connection between indigenous people in the Andes and other regions such as the rio Negro and Solimões (Central Amazon). Here we shall discuss the assumption of great settlements in theses areas with pottery production, central plazas, complex agroforesty system and a analogous sixteenth century European urbanism. These points will be important to detail archaeological, historical and linguistic data about the Andean and Amazonien settling by colonizers and indigenous people. Besides that, patterns of chiefdom, economic exchange, warfare, settlements and territorial mobility, envolving these and other subjects in a period marked by wealth and terrestrial Paradise research.