Facing Change through Diversity: Resilience and Diversification of Plant Management Strategies during the Mid to Late Holocene Transition at the Monte Castelo Shellmound, SW Amazonia
| Autor: | Francisco Pugliese, Laura Pereira Furquim, Lautaro Hilbert, Carlos A. Zimpel, Myrtle P. Shock, Jennifer Watling, Kelly Brandão, Anne Rapp Py-Daniel, Cristina Marilin Calo, Eduardo Góes Neves, Gabriela Prestes-Carneiro, Carlos Augusto Uchôa da Silva |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
paleoenvironment Environmental change Archaeological record lcsh:GN281-289 ARQUEOLOGIA BRASILEIRA 01 natural sciences cultural niche lcsh:Stratigraphy Paleoethnobotany Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) 0601 history and archaeology Amazonian archaeology Domestication Holocene 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes agriculture lcsh:QE640-699 shellmounds archaeobotany mobility patterns resilience carrying capacity 060102 archaeology Amazon rainforest Ecology Subsistence agriculture 06 humanities and the arts Niche construction Geography lcsh:Human evolution |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary; Volume 4; Issue 1; Pages: 8 Quaternary, Vol 4, Iss 8, p 8 (2021) Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 2571-550X |
| DOI: | 10.3390/quat4010008 |
| Popis: | Recent advances in the archaeology of lowland South America are furthering our understanding of the Holocene development of plant cultivation and domestication, cultural niche construction, and relationships between environmental changes and cultural strategies of food production. This article offers new data on plant and landscape management and mobility in Southwestern Amazonia during a period of environmental change at the Middle to Late Holocene transition, based on archaeobotanical analysis of the Monte Castelo shellmound, occupied between 6000 and 650 yr BP and located in a modern, seasonally flooded savanna–forest mosaic. Through diachronic comparisons of carbonized plant remains, phytoliths, and starch grains, we construct an ecology of resource use and explore its implications for the long-term history of landscape formation, resource management practices, and mobility. We show how, despite important changes visible in the archaeological record of the shellmound during this period, there persisted an ancient, local, and resilient pattern of plant management which implies a degree of stability in both subsistence and settlement patterns over the last 6000 years. This pattern is characterized by management practices that relied on increasingly diversified, rather than intensive, food production systems. Our findings have important implications in debates regarding the history of settlement permanence, population growth, and carrying capacity in the Amazon basin. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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