The origins of Amazonian landscapes: Plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America

J Iriarte, S Elliott, SY Maezumi, D Alves… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

Complex, diverse and changing agribusiness and livelihood systems in the Amazon

FA Costa, ED Assad, DH Bebbington, ES Brondizio… - Acta …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Finding pathways to more sustainable agriculture and resource use remains the most
pressing challenge for Amazonian countries. Characterizing recent changes in the structure …

Aquaculture in the ancient world: Ecosystem engineering, domesticated landscapes, and the first Blue Revolution

AJ Rogers - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2024 - Springer
Aquaculture is the world's fastest growing food sector and accounts for more than 50% of the
world's fish food supply. The significant growth in global aquaculture since the middle of the …

Impact of mid-to late Holocene precipitation changes on vegetation across lowland tropical South America: a paleo-data synthesis

RJ Smith, FE Mayle - Quaternary Research, 2018 - cambridge.org
A multi-proxy paleo-data synthesis of 110 sites is presented, exploring the impact of mid-to
late Holocene precipitation changes upon vegetation across Southern Hemisphere tropical …

Human contribution to Amazonian plant diversity: Legacy of pre-Columbian land use in modern plant communities

E Montoya, U Lombardo, C Levis, GA Aymard… - … : patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Amazonia is the world's largest tropical forest and is globally important in terms of its
ecosystem services and extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity. The origin of this …

Quantifying past forest cover and biomass changes in the Ecuadorian Amazon

NH Witteveen, ZS Kleijwegt, H Geara, C Kool… - New …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we developed and applied models to quantitatively reconstruct forest cover and
biomass changes at three lakes in northwestern Amazonia over the past> 1500 yr. We used …

Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon

SY Maezumi, BS Whitney, FE Mayle, JG de Souza… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract A 50,000-year-old sediment core record from Laguna Chaplin is reanalyzed to
explore potential paleoecological methods to detect the extent of pre-Columbian …

A North–South Dipole Response of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone During the Mid‐Holocene

ML Wong, DS Battisti, X Liu, Q Ding… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) profoundly modulates precipitation
from central to southeastern Brazil in the present‐day climate. However, the understanding …

[PDF][PDF] A review of archaeological and paleoecological radiocarbon dating in Bolivia

JM Capriles - Open Quaternary, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
Radiocarbon dating is one of the most useful and widely used chronometric techniques
available for archaeologists and other paleo-scientists. Although generally used for …

Indigenous and colonial influences on Amazonian forests

MN Nascimento, TFN Aukes… - Plants, People …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Global climate models that incorporate carbon sources and sinks
usually consider that forest uptake of carbon is in a state of equilibrium. Both historical and …