Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape

Erickson, Clark L.

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“…Social complexity is understood as the combination of subsistence intensification, political integration and social stratification following population growth (Johnson & Earle 2000). While some scholars believe that large settlements and complex societies were limited to areas with favourable environmental conditions (Bush & Silman 2007;Meggers 2001), others argue that evidence of complex societies in the Amazon Basin demonstrates that culture evolved regardless of environmental constraints (Erickson 2006(Erickson , 2008Heckenberger et al 2007). For these authors, environmental characteristics such as forest biodiversity, presence of savannas or soil fertility are primarily the result of human intentionality, rather than a pre-existent condition people had to adapt to.…”

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“…North-eastern Bolivia, which comprises the Llanos de Moxos (LM) in Beni and the Department of Pando, is an ideal region to study past human-environment interactions as it contains an unusually large number of different kinds of pre-Columbian earthworks (Erickson 2008) and has a diversity of geo-ecological sub regions (Hanagarth 1993;Langstroth 2011;Plotzki et al 2011). In recent studies, these earthworks have been interpreted as different elements of a unique landscape, which is thought to have been constructed by pre-Columbians in the LM between 900 cal BC and the arrival of the Spaniards (Erickson 2006(Erickson , 2008.…”

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“…In recent studies, these earthworks have been interpreted as different elements of a unique landscape, which is thought to have been constructed by pre-Columbians in the LM between 900 cal BC and the arrival of the Spaniards (Erickson 2006(Erickson , 2008. According to Erickson, mounds and anthropogenic forest islands hosted large sedentary populations that produced the food they needed by raised field agriculture.…”

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“…Determining whether or not these fires are natural or were started by aboriginal people is often problematic (Anderson 2005;Barrett and Arno 1982;Bonnicksen 2000;Boyd 1999;Denevan 1992;Vale 2002). Throughout the period of human occupation of North America, aboriginal people are widely believed to have extensively burned the landscape (Bonnicksen 2000;Boyd 1999;Delacourt and Delacourt 1997;Delacourt and others 1998;Erickson 2008;Gavin and others 2007;Hallett and others 2003;Jurney and others 2004;Kay 1994Kay , 1998Kay , 2007aKeeley 2002;Leenhouts 1998;Lewis 1989;Moore 1972;Nevle and Bird 2008;Pausas and Keeley 2009;Stewart 1956Stewart , 1982Williams 2000). Use of fire by aboriginal people was pervasive (Anderson 2005;Barrett and Arno 1982;Boyd 1999;Kay 1994;Denevan 1992;Kay and Simmons 2002;Williams 2000).…”

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Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology

Ryan¹,

Jones²,

Koerner³

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This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide cultural resource/archaeological professionals and policy makers with a primer on fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects to enable them to work more effectively with the fire management community to protect resources during fuels treatment and restoration projects and wildfire suppression activities; and (2) to provide fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate risks to CR. The synthesis provides a conceptual fire effects framework for planning, managing, and modeling fire effects (chapter1) and a primer on fire and fuel processes and fire effects prediction modeling (chapter 2). A synthesis of the effects of fire on various cultural resource materials is provided for ceramics (chapter 3), lithics (chapter 4), rock art (chapter 5), historic-period artifacts/materials (chapter 6), and below-ground features (chapter 7). Chapter 8 discusses the importance of cultural landscapes to indigenous peoples and emphasizes the need to actively involve native people in the development of collaborative management plans. The use and practical implications of this synthesis are the subject of the final chapter (chapter 9).Keywords: cultural resources, heritage resources, archaeology, fire regime, fire environment, fuels management, fire management, fire planning, wildfire, prescribed fire, First-Order fire effects, Second-Order fire effects, Third-Order fire effects, Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER), fire severity, traditional cultural knowledge (TKE), cultural landscapesTo order, check any box or boxes below, fill in the address form, and send to the mailing address listed below. Or send your order and your address in mailing label form to one of the other listed media.RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 1. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna. Send to: ________________________________________________________________________________ Name RMRS-GTR ________________________________________________________________________________ AddressYou may order additional copies of this publication by sending your mailing information in label form through one of the following media. Please specify the publication title and number. Publishing ServicesTelephone ( Summary ____________________________________Cultural resources refer to the physical evidence of human occupations that cultural resource specialists and archaeologists use to reconstruct the past. This includes the objects, locations, and landscapes that play a significant role in the history or cultural traditions of a group of people. Cultural resources include artifacts of historical significance left by prehistoric aboriginal p...

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“…Nas últimas décadas, estudos têm associado tal diversidade a atividades culturais de populações tradicionais, sobretudo indígenas. A diversificação do meio amazônico estaria vinculada, assim, não exclusivamente a processos de ordem natural, mas ao impacto de práticas de cultivo e utilização do território por estas populações (Posey, 1986;Balée, 1989Balée, , 1993Heckenberger et al, 2003;Erickson, 2008;ter Steege et al, 2013). No que toca à agrobiodiversidade 1 , que é o objeto precípuo deste artigo, a diversidade de variedades, espécies e paisagens cultivadas e/ou manejadas deve ser associada também à diversidade interna às próprias culturas indígenas.…”

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Socialidade e diversidade de pequis (Caryocar brasiliense, Caryocaraceae) entre os Kuikuro do alto rio Xingu (Brasil)

Smith¹,

Fausto

2016

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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This article aims to investigate and document socio-cultural aspects of the cultivation, domestication and processing of pequi (Caryocar brasiliense) among the Kuikuro Indians of the Upper Xingu, for whom this fruit has important symbolic and nutritional roles. Pequi cultivation is shared by the nine indigenous peoples who constitute the regional multiethnic system of the Upper Xingu. Despite the species' importance among these peoples, its morphological diversity has not been the subject of intensive research yet. We intend to correlate social and cultural aspects involved in the management practices of the Kuikuro and the morphological diversity of pequi. Fieldwork was carried out between 2002-2003 (Fausto) and 2010-2012 in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse in the Xingu Indigenous Park. Fieldwork involved interviewing families, participative observations and audiovisual recording. We observed that the knowledge and practices of seed selection and cultivation favor intraspecific diversity of the cultivated pequi groves. Our analysis, thus, supports the inextricable connection between genetic and cultural heritage in Amazonian agricultural systems.

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Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape

Cited by 199 publications

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Eco-archaeological regions in the Bolivian Amazon

Eco-archaeological regions in the Bolivian Amazon

Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology

Socialidade e diversidade de pequis (Caryocar brasiliense, Caryocaraceae) entre os Kuikuro do alto rio Xingu (Brasil)

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