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Facing Change through Diversity: Resilience and Diversification of Plant Management Strategies during the Mid to Late Holocene Transition at the Monte Castelo Shellmound, SW Amazonia

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Furquim, Laura P., Watling, Jennifer, Hilbert, Lautaro M., Shock, Myrtle P., Prestes-Carneiro, Gabriela, Calo, Cristina Marilin, Py-Daniel, Anne R., Brandão, Kelly +4 more·2021·Quaternary
DOI 10.3390/quat4010008
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Recent advances in the archaeology of lowland South America are furthering our understanding of the Holocene development of plant cultivation and domestication, cultural niche construction, and relationships between environmental changes and cultural strategies of food production. This article offers new data on plant and landscape management and mobility in Southwestern Amazonia during a period of environmental change at the Middle to Late Holocene transition, based on archaeobotanical analysis of the Monte Castelo shellmound, occupied between 6000 and 650 yr BP and located in a modern, seasonally flooded savanna–forest mosaic. Through diachronic comparisons of carbonized plant remains, phytoliths, and starch grains, we construct an ecology of resource use and explore its implications for the long-term history of landscape formation, resource management practices, and mobility. We show how, despite important changes visible in the archaeological record of the shellmound during this period, there persisted an ancient, local, and resilient pattern of plant management which implies a degree of stability in both subsistence and settlement patterns over the last 6000 years. This pattern is characterized by management practices that relied on increasingly diversified, rather than intensive, food production systems. Our findings have important implications in debates regarding the history of settlement permanence, population growth, and carrying capacity in the Amazon basin.

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  • By creating new cultural niches, humans partly modified the Amazonian flora, increasing their food security even during times of past climate change without the need for large-scale deforestation.

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    Section 5.1 says Indigenous people directly manipulated plants and co-constructed biodiversity, while section 5.2 describes diversified plant management in response to climatic change. Section 5.3 finds that fires recorded at Monte Castelo were not for vegetation clearance. That site-specific finding does not establish that modifying Amazonian flora more broadly required no large-scale deforestation; the food-security and climate-change phrase is attached to other citations in the citing sentence. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Furquim, L. P., Watling, J., Hilbert, L. M., Shock, M. P., Prestes-Carneiro, G., Calo, C. M., Py-Daniel, A. R., Brandão, K., Pugliese, F., Zimpel, C. A., da Silva, C. A., & Neves, E. G.
Affiliations
  • Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
  • Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (BR)
  • Department of Archaeology, Federal University of Rondônia, Porto Velho, Rondônia 76801-059, Brazil
  • Center for Environmental Sciences, Federal University of the Amazon, Manaus, Amazonas 69080-900, Brazil
Corresponding author
Furquim, Laura P.
ORCID
Venue
Quaternary
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-03-03
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
8
ISSN
2571-550X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/quat4010008
OpenAlex
W3133548317
Cited by
31
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 3
FWCI
96.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Quaternary (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2016/03400-8, 2017/25157-0, 2019/07794-9)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil and Environmental Studies
Keywords
Holocene environmental change, subsistence strategies, population growth, carrying capacity, Amazon basin, carbonized plant remains, phytoliths, starch granules, cultural niche construction, landscape formation, mobility, southwestern Amazon

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