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Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?

This work provides robust oral pathology and stable isotope evidence on Bayesian mixing model for an unexpectedly high consumption of carbohydrates by a Middle Holocene coastal population of the Atlantic Forest of South America, an area traditionally viewed as peripheral to early centres of food pro...

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Autores principales: Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis, Eggers, Sabine, Petronilho, Cecilia, Toso, Alice, da Rocha Bandeira, Dione, Von Tersch, Matthew, dos Santos, Adriana M. P., Ramos da Costa, Beatriz, Meyer, Roberta, Colonese, André Carlo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30839761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180432
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author Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis
Eggers, Sabine
Petronilho, Cecilia
Toso, Alice
da Rocha Bandeira, Dione
Von Tersch, Matthew
dos Santos, Adriana M. P.
Ramos da Costa, Beatriz
Meyer, Roberta
Colonese, André Carlo
author_facet Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis
Eggers, Sabine
Petronilho, Cecilia
Toso, Alice
da Rocha Bandeira, Dione
Von Tersch, Matthew
dos Santos, Adriana M. P.
Ramos da Costa, Beatriz
Meyer, Roberta
Colonese, André Carlo
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description This work provides robust oral pathology and stable isotope evidence on Bayesian mixing model for an unexpectedly high consumption of carbohydrates by a Middle Holocene coastal population of the Atlantic Forest of South America, an area traditionally viewed as peripheral to early centres of food production on the continent. A diversified economy with substantial consumption of plant resources was in place at the shellmound (or sambaqui) of Morro do Ouro, in Babitonga Bay, and supported a dense population at ca 4500 cal BP. This dietary composition is unique when compared with that of other contemporary and later groups in the region, including peoples who used ceramics and domesticated crops. The results corroborate independent dietary evidence, such as stone tool artefacts for plant processing and plant microremains in dental calculus of the same individuals, and suggest plant cultivation possibly took place in this region at the same time as the development of early agriculture in Amazonia and the La Plata Basin. Our study situates the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil on the map of early plant management in the Neotropics.
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spelling pubmed-61705892018-10-18 Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil? Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis Eggers, Sabine Petronilho, Cecilia Toso, Alice da Rocha Bandeira, Dione Von Tersch, Matthew dos Santos, Adriana M. P. Ramos da Costa, Beatriz Meyer, Roberta Colonese, André Carlo R Soc Open Sci Biology (Whole Organism) This work provides robust oral pathology and stable isotope evidence on Bayesian mixing model for an unexpectedly high consumption of carbohydrates by a Middle Holocene coastal population of the Atlantic Forest of South America, an area traditionally viewed as peripheral to early centres of food production on the continent. A diversified economy with substantial consumption of plant resources was in place at the shellmound (or sambaqui) of Morro do Ouro, in Babitonga Bay, and supported a dense population at ca 4500 cal BP. This dietary composition is unique when compared with that of other contemporary and later groups in the region, including peoples who used ceramics and domesticated crops. The results corroborate independent dietary evidence, such as stone tool artefacts for plant processing and plant microremains in dental calculus of the same individuals, and suggest plant cultivation possibly took place in this region at the same time as the development of early agriculture in Amazonia and the La Plata Basin. Our study situates the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil on the map of early plant management in the Neotropics. The Royal Society 2018-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6170589/ /pubmed/30839761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180432 Text en © 2018 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Biology (Whole Organism)
Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis
Eggers, Sabine
Petronilho, Cecilia
Toso, Alice
da Rocha Bandeira, Dione
Von Tersch, Matthew
dos Santos, Adriana M. P.
Ramos da Costa, Beatriz
Meyer, Roberta
Colonese, André Carlo
Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title_full Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title_fullStr Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title_full_unstemmed Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title_short Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?
title_sort middle holocene plant cultivation on the atlantic forest coast of brazil?
topic Biology (Whole Organism)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30839761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180432
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