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Pre-Columbian Mounds Harbor Distinctive Forest Communities in the Southern Campos of American Pampas
Located in the southern Campos of the Pampa biome, Uruguay is one of the least forested countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the eastern...
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The Legacy of Pre-Columbian Fisheries to Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in the Modern Amazon
The relevance of local ecological knowledge to conservation and development agendas is gaining momentum, and the Amazon biome features as one of the...
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Adaptations of Pre-Columbian Manioc Storage Techniques as Strategies to Adapt to Extreme Climatic Events in Amazonian Floodplains
In Amazonian floodplains, manioc flour is the main plant food product and source of income for local populations. In the context of climate change,...
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Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America
This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and...
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Hidden Histories of Captive and Enslaved Maya Women in the Indigenous Americas
Few archaeological studies of Pre-Columbian Maya peoples mention enslaved individuals. While ethnohistoric texts attest to the likelihood of...
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“Back to the Trees!”: Historical Ecology in Amazonia
Because the subject of an archeological study exists only as traces, it is necessary to diversify points of view to comprehend the past. The...
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The Pre-Columbian Peopling and Population Dispersals of South America
This paper summarizes the current archaeological, physiographic, demographic, molecular, and bioarchaeological understanding of the initial peopling...
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Historical Ecology in Amazonia
Historical ecology is at the heart of the ongoing debate about the degree to which pre-Columbian humans transformed Amazonian ecosystems. For more...
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Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 1): Paleoethnobotanical Residues and New Perspectives on Plant Management
We focus on pre-Columbian agricultural regimes in the Maya Lowlands, using new datasets of archaeological wood charcoal, seeds, phytoliths, and...
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Copper Metallurgy in the Andes
Like the Eastern Hemisphere, the cultures of the Americas developed a rich tradition of metallurgy millennia ago. The Andes were an independent...
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Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast
The rise of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian Native American city north of Mexico, and the rapid spread of Mississippian culture across the...
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Interrogating Diaspora and Movement in the Greater Cahokian World
Archaeological and isotopic evidence from Greater Cahokia and several prominent outlier sites argues against simple diaspora models either for the...
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Hybridity and Mortuary Patterns at the Colonial Maya Visita Settlement of Yacman, Mexico
Mortuary rituals at the mission church of Yacman, a sixteenth-century rural Maya community, reflect locally specific variants of cultural hybridity...
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Ancient DNA and Paleoparasitology in Brazil
Paleoparasitology, the study of parasitic infections that affected civilizations in the past, and molecular paleoparasitology, or paleogenetics,...
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Ancient DNA and Paleoparasitology in Brazil
Paleoparasitology, the study of parasitic infections that affected civilizations in the past, and molecular paleoparasitology, or paleogenetics,...
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South American Contributions to World Archaeology
This book focuses on South American archaeology and its contributions to the broader global archaeological discussion in theory, methods and new...
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Indigenous American Fishing Traditions at the First Spanish Capital of La Florida: Santa Elena (1566–1587 CE), South Carolina, USA
Few studies of post-Columbian animal economies in the Americas elaborate on the influence of traditional Indigenous knowledge on colonial economies....
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The Onset of Deep-Water Fishing in Southern Brazil
Coastal fisheries contributed substantially to population growth and complex forms of social organisation in eastern South America in pre-European...
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Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies
Pre-Columbian food production in the Maya Lowlands was long characterized as reliant on extensive, slash-and-burn agriculture as the sole cultivation...
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The Social Life of Food
This chapter argues for the importance of incorporating concerns with the materiality of food in anthropologically oriented studies. Historically,...