Radiocarbon chronology of terminal Pleistocene to middle Holocene human occupation in the Middle Cauca Valley, Colombia

Dickau, Ruth; Aceituno, Francisco Javier; Loaiza, Nicolás; López, Carlos; Cano, Martha Cecilia; Herrera, Leonor; Restrepo, Carlos; Ranere, Anthony J.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.025

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“…and Maranta cf. arundinacea, along with the tree fruits Persea, Caryocar and Virola (Aceituno and Loaiza, 2018;Dickau et al, 2015;Piperno and Pearsall, 1998), and a variety of palms accompanied by pollen evidence of small forest clearings (Plantago, Asteraceae). The Middle Cauca region is one of the regions where more intensive archaeology and archaeobotany in the tropical South American has been conducted.…”

Section: The Beginning Of Plant Cultivation and Domestication In Tropmentioning

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

Iriarte

Elliott

Maezumi

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During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science and floristic inventories, have started to transform our understanding of plant exploitation, cultivation and domestication in tropical South America. Archaeobotanical studies are providing a far greater appreciation of the role of plants in the diets of early colonists. Since~13ka, these diets relied mainly on palm, tree fruits, and underground tubers, along with terrestrial and riverine faunal resources. Recent evidence indicates two areas of precocious plant cultivation and domestication: the sub-Andean montane forest of NW South America and the shrub savannahs and seasonal forests of SW Amazonia. In the latter area, thousands of anthropic keystone structures represented by forest islands show a significant human footprint in Amazonia from the start of the Holocene. While radiocarbon date databases show a decline in population during the middle Holocene, important developments happened during this epoch, including the domestication of cacao, the adoption of maize and the spread of manioc across the basin. The late Holocene witnessed the domestication of rice and the development of agricultural landscapes characterised by raised fields and Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs). Our multi-proxy analysis of 23 late Holocene ADEs and two lakes from southern Amazonia provides the first direct evidence of field polyculture agriculture including the cultivation of maize, manioc, sweet potato, squash, arrowroot and leren within closed-canopy forest, as well as enrichment with palms, limited clearing for crop cultivation, and low-severity fire management. Collectively, the evidence shows that during the late Holocene Amazonian farmers engaged in intensive agriculture marked by the cultivation of both annual and perennial crops relying on organic amendments requiring soil preparation and maintenance. Our study has broader implications for sustainable Amazonian futures.

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Section: The Beginning Of Plant Cultivation and Domestication In Tropmentioning

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

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Elliott

Maezumi

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“…In particular, tropical forests offered new resources that were of economic importance including a wide variety of palms, tubers, and vines [99,100]. Broad-spectrum plant and animal-based economies were likely well in place in the late Paleoindian period in CA [101], much like they were in SA [62,102]. Comparative data from Chiapas in southern Mexico suggest flaked stone tools of late Paleoindian age were used for plant and wood processing [103] similar to proposed diversified plant-based economies in lower CA [101,104] and SA [105].…”

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Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

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From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and involving multiple waves of Pleistocene and early Holocene period immigrants entering into the neotropics. These Paleoindian colonists initially brought with them technologies developed for adaptation to environments and resources found in North America. As the ice age ended across the New World people adapted more generalized stone tools to exploit changing environments and resources. In the neotropics these changes would have been pronounced as patchy forests and grasslands gave way to broadleaf tropical forests. We document a late Pleistocene/early Holocene stone tool tradition from Belize, located in southern Mesoamerica. This represents the first endogenous Paleoindian stone tool technocomplex recovered from well dated stratigraphic contexts for Mesoamerica. Previously designated Lowe, these artifacts share multiple features with contemporary North and South American Paleoindian tool types. Once hafted, these bifaces appear to have served multiple functions for cutting, hooking, thrusting, or throwing. The tools were developed at a time of technological regionalization reflecting the diverse demands of a period of pronounced environmental change and population movement. Combined stratigraphic, technological, and population paleogenetic data suggests that there were strong ties between lowland neotropic regions at the onset of the Holocene.

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“…El paisaje cultural cafetero del Tolima es el resultado de 12 000 años de actividad humana (Cano y López, 2017;Dickau et al, 2015;Salgado y Varón, 2019). Las evidencias arqueológicas de las prácticas agrícolas se localizan especialmente entre los 900 y 1 800 metros de altitud que coincide con el espacio cafetero desarrollado posteriormente a finales del siglo XIX.…”

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Paisaje cultural cafetero del Tolima: una construcción social del patrimonio

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2020

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El artículo elabora la puesta en valor del paisaje cultural cafetero del Tolima mediante la definición de sus valores, atributos y su delimitación. A partir de esto, propone una agenda social para abarcar, validar y mejorar los componentes con las comunidades y, finalmente, identifica temas claves específicos para la gestión, con base en estrategias y herramientas de participación con las comunidades, de manera que los grupos sociales asuman su responsabilidad en la valoración del paisaje. Este trabajo representa el primer enfoque desarrollado acerca de la valorización del paisaje cultural cafetero del Tolima y ofrece las claves para el manejo de aspectos clave para la conservación del sitio.

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Radiocarbon chronology of terminal Pleistocene to middle Holocene human occupation in the Middle Cauca Valley, Colombia

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

Paisaje cultural cafetero del Tolima: una construcción social del patrimonio

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