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

2020/09/23 by Jose Iriarte, José Iriarte, Sarah Elliott +9 · 8 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory #Cassava research and cyanide #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582

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• Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
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• Reconciling Conflicting Phylogenies in the Origin of Sweet Potato and Dispersal to Polynesia
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