Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

Iriarte, José; J. Power, Mitchell; Rostain, Stéphen; E. Mayle, Francis; T. Jones, Huw; Watling, Jennifer; S. Whitney, Bronwen; McKey, Doyle

doi:10.1073/pnas.1201461109

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Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Apr 9, 2012

Authors:

José Iriarte

Mitchell J. Power

Stéphen Rostain

Abstract

The nature and scale of pre-Columbian land use and the consequences of the 1492 "Columbian Encounter" (CE) on Amazonia are among the more debated topics in New World archaeology and paleoecology. However, pre-Columbian human impact in Amazonian savannas remains poorly understood. Most paleoecologica...

Subject

Amazonian

Paleoecology

Phytolith

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