The Handbook of South American Archaeology

The Ecuadorian Formative

Zeidler, J. A. (2008) · The Handbook of South American Archaeology · doi:10.1007/978-0-387-74907-5_24 · Cited by 41

Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador

Bray, T. L. (2008) · The Handbook of South American Archaeology · doi:10.1007/978-0-387-74907-5_27 · Cited by 21

Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon

Heckenberger, M. J., Russell, J. C., Fausto, C., Toney, J. R., Schmidt, M. J., Pereira, E., Franchetto, B., & Kuikuro, A. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1159769 · Cited by 251

Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

Clement, C. R., Casas, A., Parra-Rondinel, F. A., Levis, C., Peroni, N., Hanazaki, N., Cortés-Zárraga, L., Rangel-Landa, S., Alves, R. P., Ferreira, M. J., et al. (2021) · Quaternary · doi:10.3390/quat4010004 · Cited by 184

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

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S. Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., Gregorio de Souza, J., Watling, J., & Handley, J. (2020) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582 · Cited by 165

The Amazonian Formative: Crop Domestication and Anthropogenic Soils

Arroyo-Kalin, M. (2010) · Diversity · doi:10.3390/d2040473 · Cited by 123

Slash-burn-and-churn: Landscape history and crop cultivation in pre-Columbian Amazonia

Arroyo-Kalin, M. (2012) · Quaternary International · doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.004 · Cited by 115

Pre-Columbian earth-builders settled along the entire southern rim of the Amazon

de Souza, J. G., Schaan, D. P., Robinson, M., Barbosa, A. D., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Marimon, B. H., Marimon, B. S., da Silva, I. B., Khan, S. S., Nakahara, F. R., et al. (2018) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03510-7 · Cited by 98

Historical Human Footprint on Modern Tree Species Composition in the Purus-Madeira Interfluve, Central Amazonia

Levis, C., Souza, P. F. D., Schietti, J., Emilio, T., Pinto, J. L. P. D. V., Clement, C. R., & Costa, F. R. C. (2012) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048559 · Cited by 94

An archaeological strontium isoscape for the prehistoric andes: understanding population mobility through a geostatistical meta-analysis of archaeological 87Sr/86Sr values from humans, animals, and artifacts

Scaffidi, B. K., & Knudson, K. J. (2020) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105121 · Cited by 81

Pre-Columbian human occupation patterns in the eastern plains of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazonia

Lombardo, U., & Prümers, H. (2010) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.011 · Cited by 81

Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs

Iriarte, J., Glaser, B., Watling, J., Wainwright, A., Birk, J. J., Renard, D., Rostain, S., & McKey, D. (2010) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.016 · Cited by 78

Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia: a prehistoric green revolution or a flood risk mitigation strategy?

Lombardo, U., Canal-Beeby, E., Fehr, S., & Veit, H. (2011) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.022 · Cited by 76

The Transformation of Environment into Landscape: The Historical Ecology of Monumental Earthwork Construction in the Bolivian Amazon

Erickson, C. L. (2010) · Diversity · doi:10.3390/d2040619 · Cited by 76

Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

Fehren-Schmitz, L., Haak, W., Mächtle, B., Masch, F., Llamas, B., Tomasto Cagigao, E., Sossna, V., Schittek, K., Isla Cuadrado, J., Eitel, B., et al. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1403466111 · Cited by 75

Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography

Silverman, H. (2011) · Contested Cultural Heritage · doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7305-4_1 · Cited by 72

Neotropical human–landscape interactions, fire, and atmospheric CO 2 during European conquest

Nevle, R. J., Bird, D. K., Ruddiman, W. F., & Dull, R. A. (2011) · The Holocene · doi:10.1177/0959683611404578 · Cited by 68

“Let's drink together”: early ceremonial use of maize in the Titicaca Basin

Logan, A. L., Hastorf, C. A., & Pearsall, D. M. (2012) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.23.3.235 · Cited by 58

Secondary Forests on Anthropogenic Soils of the Middle Madeira River: Valuation, Local Knowledge, and Landscape Domestication in Brazilian Amazonia

Junqueira, A. B., Shepard, G. H., & Clement, C. R. (2011) · Economic Botany · doi:10.1007/s12231-010-9138-8 · Cited by 58

Contingent Diversity on Anthropic Landscapes

Balée, W. (2010) · Diversity · doi:10.3390/d2020163 · Cited by 55

The genetic structure and adaptation of Andean highlanders and Amazonians are influenced by the interplay between geography and culture

Borda, V., Alvim, I., Mendes, M., Silva-Carvalho, C., Soares-Souza, G. B., Leal, T. P., Furlan, V., Scliar, M. O., Zamudio, R., Zolini, C., et al. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2013773117 · Cited by 54

Casualties of Heritage Distancing: Children, Ch’orti’ Indigeneity, and the Copán Archaeoscape

McAnany, P. A., & Parks, S. (2012) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/663687 · Cited by 53

Re-evaluating the resource potential of lomas fog oasis environments for Preceramic hunter–gatherers under past ENSO modes on the south coast of Peru

Beresford-Jones, D., Pullen, A. G., Whaley, O. Q., Moat, J., Chauca, G., Cadwallader, L., Arce, S., Orellana, A., Alarcón, C., Gorriti, M., et al. (2015) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.025 · Cited by 53

Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andes

Contreras, D. A. (2010) · Journal of Archaeological Research · doi:10.1007/s10814-010-9038-6 · Cited by 50

A comprehensive numerical chronology for the pre-Columbian cultures of the Palpa valleys, south coast of Peru

Unkel, I., Reindel, M., Gorbahn, H., Isla Cuadrado, J., Kromer, B., & Sossna, V. (2012) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.021 · Cited by 48

Phytoliths in modern plants from amazonia and the neotropics at large: Implications for vegetation history reconstruction

Piperno, D. R., & McMichael, C. (2020) · Quaternary International · doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.043 · Cited by 45

Finding forest management in prehistoric Amazonia

Piperno, D. R., McMichael, C. N. H., & Bush, M. B. (2019) · Anthropocene · doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100211 · Cited by 44

Monumentality in Western Amazonian formative societies: geometric ditched enclosures in the Brazilian state of Acre

Saunaluoma, S., & Schaan, D. (2012) · Antiqua · doi:10.4081/antiqua.2012.e1 · Cited by 42

Gran Sabana fires (SE Venezuela): a paleoecological perspective

Montoya, E., & Rull, V. (2011) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.005 · Cited by 40

Subsistence strategies in Argentina during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene

Martínez, G., Gutiérrez, M. A., Messineo, P. G., Kaufmann, C. A., & Rafuse, D. J. (2016) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.014 · Cited by 38

Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain—Response

Braje, T. J., Rick, T. C., Dillehay, T. D., Erlandson, J. M., & Klein, R. G. (2018) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aar8645 · Cited by 34

New insights on palaeofires and savannisation in northern South America

Rull, V., Montoya, E., Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., & Ballesteros, T. (2015) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.032 · Cited by 33

Cultural Diversity and Paleomobility in the Andean Middle Horizon: Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Analyses in the San Pedro De Atacama Oases of Northern Chile

Knudson, K. J., & Torres-Rouff, C. (2014) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.25.2.170 · Cited by 31

Water, movement and landscape ordering: a GIS-based analysis for understanding the mobility system of late holocene mound-builders in southern Brazil

Milheira, R. G., De Souza, J. G., & Iriarte, J. (2019) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2019.105014 · Cited by 30

A Reevaluation of the Absolute Chronology of Cabuza and Related Ceramic Styles of the Azapa Valley, Northern Chile

Korpisaari, A., Oinonen, M., & Chacama, J. (2014) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.25.4.409 · Cited by 29

Between Sierra and Selva: Landscape transformations in upper Ecuadorian Amazonia

Rostain, S. (2012) · Quaternary International · doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.031 · Cited by 29

Cueva Huenul 1 Archaeological Site, Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: Initial Colonization and Mid-Holocene Demographic Retraction

Barberena, R. (2015) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.26.3.304 · Cited by 28

A human role in Andean megafaunal extinction?

Raczka, M. F., Mosblech, N. A., Giosan, L., Valencia, B. G., Folcik, A. M., Kingston, M., Baskin, S., & Bush, M. B. (2019) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.005 · Cited by 27

Pre-Columbian Earthworks in the Riberalta Region of the Bolivian Amazon

Saunaluoma, S. (2010) · Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia · doi:10.18542/amazonica.v2i1.347 · Cited by 21

Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Becker, S. K. (2020) · International Journal of Paleopathology · doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.08.005 · Cited by 20

The La tolita—tumaco culture: master metalsmiths in gold and platinum

Scott, D. A. (2011) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.22.1.65 · Cited by 19

Crossing the western altiplano: the ecological context of tiwanaku migrations

Vining, B., & Williams, P. R. (2020) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2019.105046 · Cited by 19

Ground truthing of remotely identified fortifications on the Central Coast of Perú

Brown Vega, M., Craig, N., & Lindo, G. A. (2011) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.035 · Cited by 19

Concepts of Ethnicity and Culture in Andean Archaeology

Stovel, E. M. (2013) · Latin American Antiquity · doi:10.7183/1045-6635.24.1.3 · Cited by 18

The architect’s signature: The social production of a residential landscape at Monte Viudo, Chachapoyas, Peru

Guengerich, A. (2014) · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2013.12.005 · Cited by 18

Humans and climate as designers of the landscape in Serra da Bocaina National Park, southeastern Brazil, over the last seven centuries

Guarinello de Oliveira Portes, M. C., Safford, H., & Behling, H. (2018) · Anthropocene · doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2018.11.004 · Cited by 15

Reconstructing landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based approach

Contreras, D. A. (2009) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2008.11.025 · Cited by 14

Imperial inca-style pottery from Ecuador: insights into provenance and production using INAA and ceramic petrography

Bray, T. L., & Minc, L. (2020) · Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102628 · Cited by 11

Investigating Obsidian Procurement at Integration Period (ca. AD 700-1500)Tola Sites in Highland Northern Ecuador via Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF)

Dyrdahl, E., & Speakman, R. J. (2013) · ACS Symposium Series · doi:10.1021/bk-2013-1147.ch012 · Cited by 5

Sociopolitical evolution, population clustering, and technology among early sedentary communities in northeastern andes, colombia

Fajardo, S., & Argüello, P. (2024) · Journal Of Anthropological Archaeology · doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101628 · Cited by 4

The First Americans: The Current Debate

Klein, H. S. (2016) · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · doi:10.1162/jinh_a_00904 · Cited by 4

Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City

Bush, M. B., Sales, R. K., Neill, D., Valencia, B. G., León-Yánez, S., Stanley, A., Sinkler, W., Bennett, I., Gomes, B. T., Land, K., et al. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62315-7 · Cited by 4

Palms and Cultural Landscapes

Smith, N. (2015) · Geobotany Studies · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05509-1_1 · Cited by 3

Points, patterns, and predictions in archaeological settlement data: site-environment relationships of paracas and nasca communities in the peruvian andes

Bilotti, G., Reindel, M., Isla, J., & Mader, C. (2025) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2025.106385 · Cited by 2

Obsidian acquisition networks in northern Ecuador from 1600 to 750 cal BCE

Dyrdahl, E. (2022) · Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103530 · Cited by 1