[HTML][HTML] Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492

A Koch, C Brierley, MM Maslin, SL Lewis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

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 …

Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America

L Kistler, SY Maezumi, J Gregorio de Souza… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico
beginning around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by …

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

AS Fleischmann, F Papa, A Fassoni-Andrade… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes,
which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human …

River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers

S Jackson, EP Anderson, NC Piland… - People and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
River rhythmicity refers to the periodic, recurrent phenomena of a riverscape that are
synchronized with the rise and fall of river water, creating regimes of river time. River …

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 …

The anthropology of aquaculture

BA Costa-Pierce - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aquaculture is nothing new. It has a long, fascinating history that stretches from antiquity at
least 8,000 years ago. What is new is the evolution of aquaculture in modern times into …

Late Archaic large-scale fisheries in the wetlands of the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands

E Harrison-Buck, SM Krause, M Brouwer Burg… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Multiproxy data collected from the largest inland wetland in Belize, Central America,
demonstrate the presence of large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facilities built by Late …

Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene: Multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change in a Maya agroecosystem

S Krause, TP Beach, S Luzzadder-Beach, D Cook… - Anthropocene, 2021 - Elsevier
Wetlands epitomize all forms of the proposed Anthropocene era because they record both
past and recent human environmental interaction and because of their abundant resources …