The bow and arrow is a crucial component of Homo sapiens' material culture. In South
America, data on the bow and arrow are widely scattered, which motived this …

Seed dispersal is one of the most studied plant–animal mutualisms. It has been proposed
that the dispersal of many large-seeded plants from Neotropical forests was primarily …

We carried out a comprehensive literature review of the medicinal use of palms in
northwestern South America and complemented it with a large number of field interviews …

Sinami (Oenocarpus mapora H. Karst), a native fruit found in the Amazon region of South
America, has high nutritional value and is rich in lipids. However, the processing of sinami …

Palms are a natural resource that has been abundantly used by Amerindians for centuries.
Only a few palm domestications have been reported in the American tropics, where there is …

South American ethnic groups traditionally use palm fiber, which provides materials for
domestic, commercial, and ceremonial purposes. A literature review of 185 references was …

A cotton headdress ornamented with several botanical and faunal elements (TM-5074-2) is
kept in the depot of the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam. There is little information about the …

In this paper we present a myth about the origins of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes
Kunth), recorded during a research project dedicated to landscape domestication and the …

La extracción de fibras y su empleo en la Amazonia es amplio. Lejos de ser simple
materialidad, la cultura material entre los pueblos indígenas tiene asociaciones simbólicas y …

The Pacaya Samiria National Reserve has terra firma forest and seasonally-flooded forest
(várzea) typical of the western lowland Amazon. It is very biodiverse and its natural …