List of illustrations

Figures

Figure 1.1. Fragment of the edge of a ceramic bowl. The figure bears a head adornment superimposed on a face with nonhuman morphological characteristics. Casa de Cultura de Oriximiná. Drawing by Luisa Vidal de Oliveira.

Figure 1.2. Fragment of the edge of a ceramic vessel with a chimerical representation of a zoomorphic being from which another figure emerges, as evidenced by an eye. Both are side-faced figures. Museu Integrado de Óbidos. Photograph by Denise Gomes.

Figure 1.3. Fragment of the edge of a ceramic bowl. Zooanthropomorphs with head adornment, where the frontality and the alignment between the eyes, nose and mouth can be observed. Museu Nacional, UFRJ. Photograph by Luisa Vidal de Oliveira.

Figure 1.4. Fragment of the edge of a ceramic vessel with a zooanthropomorphic figure with head adornment, showing the neck-cover on its back. Museu Nacional/ UFRJ. Photograph by Luisa Vidal de Oliveira.

Figure 1.5. Fragment of the edge of a ceramic plate with a figure modelled with profuse dots suggesting a multiplicity of zoomorphic figures. Museu Integrado de Óbidos. Photograph by Denise Gomes.

Figure 1.6. Fragment of the flange of a ceramic vessel showing heads with adornments and a figurative nose, outlined by an incised-dotted fillet whose ends form small heads. Museu Nacional/UFRJ. Photograph by Luisa Vidal de Oliveira.

Figure 5.1. Timeline of notable Chilean earthquakes (1810–2020).

Figure 5.2. Concepción after the Ruin. Drawing by John Clements, a passenger on the Beagle.

Figure 5.3. Chillán after the 1939 earthquake. Colección Archivo Fotográfico. Museo Histórico Nacional.

Maps

Map 1.1. Area of occurrence of Konduri pottery in the Lower Amazon, Brazil. Elaborated by João Paulo Lopes da Cunha.

Map 3.1. The region affected by the great drought (1768–73). Elaborated by Marco Antonio Hernández Andrade.

Map 6.1. Distribution of the most important pests (sugar zone in Northeast Brazil). Source: Pietro Guagliumi, Pragas da cana-de-açúcar: Nordeste do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro, IAA, 1972/1973, 13.

Tables

Table 3.1. Classification index of droughts in the kingdom of Guatemala and viceroyalty of New Spain, 1640–1819.

Graphs

Graph 3.1. Droughts in the captaincy of Guatemala, 1640–1819.

Graph 3.2. Droughts in the viceroyalty of New Spain, 1640–1819.

Graph 3.3. Index of droughts in the kingdom of Guatemala and the viceroyalty of New Spain, 1640–1819.