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Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia
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“Maize (Zea mays) was indicated by Cross 1 phytoliths > 21 μm and Wavy-top rondels”
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“analogous processes have been documented for animal species in the Late Pleistocene37, and, more relevantly for plant communities, in the construction of approximately 4700 artificial forest islands within seasonally flooded Amazonian savannahs during the Early Holocene38”
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“Areas between 2300 and 3500 m a.s.l. also probably offered benefits of lower disease and parasite probability than low and mid-elevations, higher light availability than mid-elevations and favourable conditions for growing crops such as quinoa, manioc, rice and potato compared with both lower and higher regions of the Tropical Andes [14,64].”
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- Authors
- Lombardo, U., Iriarte, J., Hilbert, L., Ruiz-Pérez, J., Capriles, J. M., & Veit, H.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2020-04-08
- Volume
- 581
- Issue
- 7807
- Pages
- 190-193
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC7250647
- Cited by
- 200
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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