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Title: | The domestication of amazonia before european conquest |
Authors: | Clement, Charles Roland Denevan, William M. Heckenberger, Michael J. Junqueira, André Braga Neves, Eduardo Goés Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes Woods, William I. |
Keywords: | Crop Production Domestication Holocene Human Settlement Land Management Pristine Environment Resource Management Social Development Tropical Forest Twentieth Century Amazonia Archeology Crop Ecosystem Human Physiology Population Density South America Archaeology Crops, Agricultural Ecosystem Humans Population Density South America |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 282, Número 1812 |
Abstract: | During the twentieth century, Amazonia was widely regarded as relatively pristine nature, little impacted by human history. This view remains popular despite mounting evidence of substantial human influence over millennial scales across the region. Here, we review the evidence of an anthropogenic Amazonia in response to claims of sparse populations across broad portions of the region. Amazonia was a major centre of crop domestication, with at least 83 native species containing populations domesticated to some degree. Plant domestication occurs in domesticated landscapes, including highly modified Amazonian dark earths (ADEs) associated with large settled populations and that may cover greater than 0.1% of the region. Populations and food production expanded rapidly within land management systems in the mid-Holocene, and complex societies expanded in resource-rich areas creating domesticated landscapes with profound impacts on local and regional ecology. ADE food production projections support estimates of at least eight million people in 1492. By this time, highly diverse regional systems had developed across Amazonia where subsistence resources were created with plant and landscape domestication, including earthworks. This review argues that the Amazonian anthrome was no less socio-culturally diverse or populous than other tropical forested areas of the world prior to European conquest. © 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1098/rspb.2015.0813 |
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