{"id":5662,"date":"2018-08-02T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amazoniasocioambiental.org\/radar\/direct-archaeological-evidence-for-southwestern-amazonia-as-an-early-plant-domestication-and-food-production-centre\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:39:56","slug":"direct-archaeological-evidence-for-southwestern-amazonia-as-an-early-plant-domestication-and-food-production-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/radar\/direct-archaeological-evidence-for-southwestern-amazonia-as-an-early-plant-domestication-and-food-production-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct archaeological evidence for Southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Jennifer Watling,\u00a0Myrtle P. Shock,\u00a0Guilherme Z. Mongel\u00f3,\u00a0Fernando O. Almeida,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Thiago Kater,\u00a0Paulo E. De Oliveira, and Eduardo G. Neves<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/\">PLOS ONE<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>July 25, 2018<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1.p1\" class=\"link-target\" name=\"article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1.p1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southwestern Amazonia is considered an early centre of plant domestication in the New World, but most of the evidence for this hypothesis comes from genetic data since systematic archaeological fieldwork in the area is recent. This paper provides first-hand archaeobotanical evidence of food production from early and middle Holocene (ca. 9,000\u20135000 cal. BP) deposits at Teotonio, an open-air site located on a 40 m-high bluff on the south bank of the Madeira river. Such evidence includes the presence of local and exotic domesticates such as manioc (<em>Manihot esculenta<\/em>), squash (<em>Cucurbita<\/em>\u00a0sp.) and beans (<em>Phaseolus<\/em>\u00a0sp.), alongside edible fruits such as\u00a0<em>pequi\u00e1<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Caryocar<\/em>\u00a0sp.) and guava (<em>Psidium<\/em>\u00a0sp.) that point to the beginnings of landscape domestication. The results contribute to an ever-growing number of studies that posit southwest Amazonia as an important centre for early crop domestication and experimentation, and which highlight the\u00a0<em>longue-dur\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0of human impacts on tropical forest biodiversity around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Domestication-SW-Amazonia.pdf\"><strong>VIEW FULL-TEXT (PDF)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watling J, Shock MP, Mongel\u00f3 GZ, Almeida FO, Kater T, De Oliveira PE, et al. (2018) <strong>Direct archaeological evidence for Southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre<\/strong>. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199868.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0199868\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0199868<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwestern Amazonia is considered an early centre of plant domestication in the New World, but most of the evidence for this hypothesis comes from genetic data since systematic archaeological fieldwork in the area is recent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radar","category-2","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}