During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

The Amazon basin is accepted as an independent center of plant domestication in the world.
A variety of important plants were domesticated in the Amazon and its surroundings; …

The Amazon is one of the few independent centres of plant domestication in the world, yet
archaeological and ethnographic evidence suggest a relatively recent transition to …

This paper addresses an important debate in Amazonian studies; namely, the scale,
intensity, and nature of human modification of the forests in prehistory. Phytolith and …

People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by
modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and …

The nature and spatial scale of prehistoric human landscape modifications in Amazonia are
enduring questions. Original conceptions of the issues by archaeologists published more …

The commercialization of Brazil nuts, seeds of Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.(Lecythidaceae),
represents one of the main income-generation activities for local and indigenous people …

Background Native Amazonian populations managed forest resources in numerous ways,
often creating oligarchic forests dominated by useful trees. The scale and spatial distribution …

In Amazonia, human activities that occurred hundreds of years ago in the pre‐European era
can leave long‐lasting effects on the forests–termed ecological legacies. These legacies …

Aim Our goal was to test the hypothesis that ancient humans substantially contributed to
shaping the current distribution of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa), an Amazonian tree …