A sedimentary record from the Peruvian Amazon provided evidence of climate and
vegetation change for the last 6900 years. Piston cores collected from the center of Lake …

Abstract The Sierra Nevada of southern Spain is a landscape with a rich biological and
cultural heritage. The range was extensively glaciated during the late Pleistocene. However …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Paleoclimate records indicate a series of severe droughts was associated with societal
collapse of the Classic Maya during the Terminal Classic period (∼ 800–950 CE). Evidence …

We present an integrated palaeoecological and archaeobotanical study of pre-Columbian
raised-field agriculture in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally inundated forest–savanna …

Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-
resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic …

A high-resolution paleoecological record provides a 2690 year-long fossil pollen and
charcoal history from Lake Ayauchi, Ecuador, in lowland Amazonia. The record begins with …

We present a multiproxy study of land use by a pre-Columbian earth mounds culture in the
Bolivian Amazon. The Monumental Mounds Region (MMR) is an archaeological sub-region …

Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the
reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that …

The nature and extent of pre-Columbian (pre-AD 1492) human impact in Amazonia is a
contentious issue. The Bolivian Amazon has yielded some of the most impressive evidence …