Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden in the Brazilian Amazon

Roosevelt, Anna C.; Housley, R. A.; Silveira, Maura Imázio da; Maranca, Silvia; Johnson, Richard A.

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“…These early occupants were broad-spectrum foragers, who may have begun domestication of the landscape near the site [143], but who did not possess any plant populations with signs of domestication. Somewhat later (7,100 BP) and on the other side of the Amazon River at Taperinha, near Santaré m, Pará , settled villages appeared, based on exploitation of fluvial resources and forest foraging, as well as the first pottery in the Americas [144]. Some of the pottery suggests the presence of food production, but no evidence of domesticated plants exists [143].…”

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Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

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Molecular analyses are providing new elements to decipher the origin, domestication and dispersal of native Amazonian crops in an expanding archaeological context. Solid molecular data are available for manioc (Manihot esculenta), cacao (Theobroma cacao), pineapple (Ananas comosus), peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) and guaraná (Paullinia cupana), while hot peppers (Capsicum spp.), inga (Inga edulis), Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum) are being studied. Emergent patterns include the relationships among domestication, antiquity (terminal Pleistocene to early Holocene), origin in the periphery, ample pre-Columbian dispersal and clear phylogeographic population structure for manioc, pineapple, peach palm and, perhaps, Capsicum peppers. Cacao represents the special case of an Amazonian species possibly brought into domestication in Mesoamerica, but close scrutiny of molecular data suggests that it may also have some incipiently domesticated populations in Amazonia. Another pattern includes the relationships among species with incipiently domesticated populations or very recently domesticated populations, rapid pre-or post-conquest dispersal and lack of phylogeographic population structure, e.g., Brazil nut, cupuassu and guaraná . These patterns contrast the peripheral origin of most species with domesticated OPEN ACCESSDiversity 2010, 2 73 populations with the subsequent concentration of their genetic resources in the center of the basin, along the major white water rivers where high pre-conquest population densities developed. Additional molecular genetic analyses on these and other species will allow better examination of these processes and will enable us to relate them to other historical ecological patterns in Amazonia.

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Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

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“…One hypothesis for the biomass increase is CO] fertilization, or more broadly, any climatic fluctuation favouring higher growth. Alternatively, changes might be due to long-term succession after a major disturbance, perhaps a climatic event (Chave et al 2008) or widespread anthropogenic disturbances that ended about 500 y ago, when human populations decreased due to diseases brought by European conquerors (Heckenberger et al 2007, Roosevelt et al 1991, Wright 2005.…”

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Dissecting biomass dynamics in a large Amazonian forest plot

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Above-ground biomass (AGB) is increasing in most of the Amazon forests. One hypothesis is that forests are responding to widespread and intense human intervention prior to the European conquest (> 5 00 y ago). In this study we confront this hypothesis with changes in AGB over 6.3 y in a large western Amazonian forest plot (>150 000 shrubs and trees and 1100 species with dbh > 10 mm in 2 5 ha). We examined AGB flux in different habitats and across diameter classes. The forest lost small stems (4.6%), gained large trees (2.6%), and gained biomass (0.7%). The change in AGB stock was due entirely to this upward shift in size leading to more canopy trees and fewer saplings after just 6 y. Across habitats, the biggest increment in biomass was in the secondary-forest patch (3.4% y _1 ) which we know was cleared about 2 7 y ago, whereas mature forest on ridges and valleys had small increases (0.10% and 0.09% y _1 , respectively). In both censuses, AGB stocks were >50% higher on the ridge than in the valley while relative growth and mortality were higher in the valley. Mean wood specific gravity (WSG) decreased with increasing diameter class; WSG did not change much between censuses in mature forests and did not contribute to the change in AGB stocks. Our forest increased its standing biomass, but far less than the average reported for other Amazonian forests (i.e. 0.30 vs. 0.98 Mg ha ^ y _1 ). We find no evidence to support the notion that this forest is recovering from long-past human intervention. Instead of a long-term recovery, we believe the forest changed in response to natural fluctuations of the environment (e.g. changes in precipitation, higher C0 2 ), windstorms or other more recent events. The significant differences in AGB stocks between valley and ridge suggest that the terra firme forests are a mosaic of natural habitats, and that this mosaic is in part responsible for the variation in biomass stocks detected in Amazonian terra firme forests.Resumen: La biomasa aerea de la mayoria de los bosques amazonicos esta incrementando. Una hipotesis es que los bosques estan respondiendo a un disturbio humano intense y ampliamente distribuido, anterior a la llegada de los conquistadores europeos (>500 anos atras). En este estudio se confronta esta hipotesis con los cambios en biomasa encontrados en 6.3 ahos en una parcela de gran escala de la Amazonia occidental (> 150.000 arbustos y arboles con diametro a la altura del pecho >10 mm y 1100 especies en 25 ha). Los resultados se examinan por categorias de diametro y habitat. En este periodo el bosque perdio tallos pequehos (4.6%), gano arboles grandes (2.6%) y gano biomasa (0.7%). La ganancia en biomasa fue debida enteramente al incremento de arboles de gran tamano que signified mas arboles de dosel y menos juveniles en apenas 6 anos. Entre los habitats, el mayor incremento en biomasa se encontro en un parche de bosque secundario de colina (3.4%/ano), cuya edad es de 27 anos, mientras el bosque maduro de las colinas y los valles incremento escasamente (0.10% ...

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“…(Stahl, 1984, p.102) Pesquisas arqueológicas apontam que é no leste da Amazônia que se encontram as cerâmicas mais antigas sul-americanas, a cerâmica Taperinha e a Tradição Mina, com datas próximas a 6000 a.C. (Bandeira, 2008(Bandeira, , 2010Simões, 1981;Roosevelt, 1995Roosevelt, , 1999Roosevelt et al, 1991). Entretanto, parece ser no oeste que se encontram os mais antigos vasos ligados ao preparo e ao consumo de fermentados, datados por volta de 3000 a.C. (DeBoer, 2003, p.299-303;Stahl, 1984, p.196-97).…”

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A arqueologia dos fermentados: a etílica história dos Tupi-Guarani

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Beers are a vital subsistence food. Their consumption can also place the cosmological participant in closer contact to the hidden space. (Stahl, 1984, p.65) Outra característica que se tornou quase universal, porque satisfaz a uma necessidade biológica, é a manufatura de bebidas ligeiramente alcoólicas. (Meggers, 1987, p.145) drunkness also expresses culture in so far as it always takes the form of highly patterned, learned comportment which varies from culture to culture: pink elephants in one region, green snakes in another. (Douglas, 1987, p.4) Introdução este artigo será discutido o consumo de bebidas fermentadas, um há-bito amplamente difundido nas sociedades indígenas amazônicas. Um tema extenso, que possui uma série de campos analíticos (e.g. cognição, saúde, sociabilidade), muitos já razoavelmente debatidos, em especial pelas ciências médicas e pela antropologia. Na arqueologia, esse é um tema bastante recente (ver exceções em Braidwood, 1953;Katz;Voight, 1986), tendo sido negligenciado pela escola processualista norte-americana e pouco aprofundado até hoje na arqueologia brasileira (vide exceção em Neumann, 2010;Brochado, 1998).O tema dos fermentados não é, de forma alguma, um assunto escolhido de forma aleatória dentro de uma imensidão de possibilidades. Trata-se, sim, para alguém que estuda cerâmica arqueológica, de algo que está presente em (quase) todos os lugares da Amazônia há milhares de anos. Foram os potes que trouxeram o assunto à tona, o que também significa que o viés ceramológico deixará de fora da discussão outros elementos que alteram a mente, comuns a muitas sociedades indígenas sul-americanas, como o tabaco, a coca e o ayahuasca.Tampouco se pretende argumentar que se trata da resposta para todas as questões da arqueologia amazônica, um optimum climático ou uma várzea fértil pós-moderna (ver adiante). Pretende-se apenas discutir um elemento central nas transformações das sociedades amazônicas através do tempo, um elemento que

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Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden in the Brazilian Amazon

Cited by 219 publications

References 15 publications

Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops

Dissecting biomass dynamics in a large Amazonian forest plot

A arqueologia dos fermentados: a etílica história dos Tupi-Guarani

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