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Impact of pre-Columbian "geoglyph" builders on Amazonian forests. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017
Significance Amazonian rainforests once thought to be pristine wildernesses are increasingly known to have been inhabited by large populations before European contact. How and to what extent these societies impacted their landscape through deforestation and forest management is still controversial, particularly in the vast interfluvial ...
Watling J, Iriarte J, Mayle FE, Schaan D, Pessenda LC, Loader NJ, Street-Perrott FA, Dickau RE, Damasceno A, Ranzi A.   +9 more
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An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests [PDF]

Quaternary, 2023
Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across Amazonia through the Holocene.
James Hill, Stuart Black, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Rene Boot, Roel Brienen, Ted Feldpausch, John Leigue, Samaria Murakami, Abel Monteagudo, Guido Pardo, Marielos Peña-Claros, Oliver L. Phillips, Marisol Toledo, Vincent Vos, Pieter Zuidema, Francis E. Mayle   +15 more
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The Uffington White Horse geoglyph as sun-horse [PDF]

Antiquity, 2017
Abstract
J. Pollard
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Hypotheses about geoglyphs at Nasca, Peru: new discoveries [PDF]

Geoinformatics FCE CTU, 2016
The known hypotheses about the reasons why the geoglyphs in the Nasca and Palpa region of Peru were created are many: roads/paths, rituals/ceremonials, use of hallucinogens, astronomical meaning, influence of extraterrestrials, underground water… and so ...
Jaroslav Klokočník, Jiří Sonnek, Karolína Hanzalová, Karel Pavelka   +3 more
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Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for localized, short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017
Watling J, Iriarte J, Mayle FE, Schaan D, Pessenda LCR, Loader NJ, Street-Perrott FA, Dickau RE, Damasceno A, Ranzi A.   +9 more
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Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: A case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil [PDF]

Journal of anthropology and archaeology, 2018
This paper applies concepts from the fields of historical ecology and human niche construction theory to interpret archaeological and palaeoecological data from the Brazilian state of Acre, southwest Amazonia, where modern deforestation has revealed ...
J. Watling, F. Mayle, Denise Schaan
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High Resolution Drone Surveying of the Pista Geoglyph in Palpa, Peru

Geosciences, 2018
Currently, satellite images can be used to document historical or archaeological sites in areas that are distant, dangerous, or expensive to visit, and they can be used instead of basic fieldwork in several cases.
Karel Pavelka, Jaroslav Šedina, Eva Matoušková   +2 more
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Archaeoastronomy at Kanda geoglyph , Macedonia [PDF]

Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology, 2017
This paper extends our previous research of an artificial mound in Kanda (Macedonia) from an archaeoastronomical point of view. In two previous papers, SB Research Group explained its archaeoacoustic research and established the existence of several ...
P. Debertolis, Domagoj Nikoli, Natalia Tarabella   +2 more
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The geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru [PDF]

, 2021
The Geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru is a revision of the author´s Ph.D. thesis. In this study, the famed geoglyphs of the Paracas and Nasca cultures on the south coast of Peru are investigated in order to better understand their function and meaning.
Lambers, K.
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Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a ...
Ter Steege H, Poorter L, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Fortunel C, Magnusson WE, Phillips OL, Pos E, Luize BG, Baraloto C, Guevara JE, Endara MJ, Baker TR, Umaña MN, van der Sande M, Pombo MM, McGlone M, Draper FC, do Amaral IL, Coelho LS, Wittmann F, Almeida Matos FD, Lima Filho DA, Salomão RP, Castilho CV, Carim MJV, Piedade MTF, Sabatier D, Molino JF, Demarchi LO, Cardenas Revilla JD, Schöngart J, Irume MV, Martins MP, da Silva Guimarães JR, Ramos JF, Bánki OS, Quaresma AC, Pitman NCA, Peres CA, de Jesus Rodrigues D, Hawes JE, Almeida EJ, Barbosa LF, Cavalheiro L, Santos MCVD, Leão Novo EMM, Vargas PN, Silva TSF, Venticinque EM, Manzatto AG, Reis NFC, Terborgh J, Casula KR, Honorio Coronado EN, Monteagudo Mendoza A, Carlos Montero J, De Souza CR, Oliveira MVN, Costa FRC, Engel J, Feldpausch TR, Castaño Arboleda N, Durgante FM, Zartman CE, Killeen TJ, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Vasquez R, Mostacedo B, Assis RL, Amaral DDD, Castellanos H, Householder JE, de Medeiros MB, Simon MF, Andrade A, Camargo JL, Laurance SGW, Laurance WF, Rincón LM, Mori GB, Schietti J, Sousa TR, de Sousa Farias E, Lopes MA, Magalhães JLL, Nascimento HEM, de Queiroz HL, Vasconcelos CC, Aymard C GA, Brienen R, Sousa Assis PL, Gris D, Ribeiro KAF, Stevenson PR, Araujo-Murakami A, Cintra BBL, Feitosa YO, Mogollón HF, Silman MR, Ferreira LV, Lozada JR, Comiskey JA, de Toledo JJ, Damasco G, García-Villacorta R, Lopes A, Rios Paredes M, Vicentini A, Vieira ICG, Cornejo Valverde F, Alonso A, Arroyo L, Dallmeier F, Gomes VHF, Huari WN, Neill D, Peñuela Mora MC, de Aguiar DPP, Barbosa FR, Bredin YK, de Sá Carpanedo R, Carvalho FA, de Souza FC, Feeley KJ, Gribel R, Haugaasen T, Noronha JC, Pansonato MP, Pipoly JJ, Barlow J, Berenguer E, Silva IBD, Ferreira J, Ferreira MJ, Fine PVA, Guedes MC, Levis C, Carlos Licona J, Zegarra BEV, Vos VA, Cerón C, Fonty É, Henkel TW, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Silveira M, Stropp J, Thomas R, Daly D, Dexter KG, Milliken W, Molina GP, Pennington T, Albuquerque BW, Campelo W, Claros AF, Klitgaard B, Pena JLM, Montenegro LT, Tello JS, Vriesendorp C, Chave J, Di Fiore A, Hilário RR, de Oliveira Pereira L, Phillips JF, Rivas-Torres G, van Andel TR, Hildebrand PV, Balee W, Barbosa EM, Bonates LCM, Dávila Doza HP, Zárate Gómez R, Gonzales GPG, Gonzales T, Hoffman B, Junqueira AB, Malhi Y, Miranda IPA, Pinto LFM, Prieto A, Rudas A, Ruschel AR, Silva N, Vela CIA, Zent EL, Zent S, Cano A, Carrero Márquez YA, Correa DF, Costa JBP, Flores BM, Galbraith D, Holmgren M, Kalamandeen M, Lobo G, Mori Vargas T, Nascimento MT, Oliveira AA, Ramirez-Angulo H, Rocha M, Scudeller VV, Heijden GV, Torre EV, Baider C, Balslev H, Cárdenas S, Casas LF, Farfan-Rios W, Linares-Palomino R, Mendoza C, Mesones I, Parada GA, Torres-Lezama A, Villarroel D, Zagt R, Alexiades MN, de Oliveira EA, Fortier RP, Garcia-Cabrera K, Hernandez L, Cuenca WP, Pansini S, Pauletto D, Arevalo FR, Sampaio AF, Valderrama Sandoval EH, Gamarra LV, Levesley A, Pickavance G.   +230 more
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