ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2015
The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest.
Review in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.
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63 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Maize-based polyculture, not monoculture, sustained precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado.Science advances · 2026Article
- Ecological legacies of pre-Columbian settlements evident in palm clusters of neotropical mountain forests.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- From genomics to domestication: biocultural history of the Neotropical palms Acrocomia aculeata and Acrocomia totai.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Increasing tree size across Amazonia.Nature plants · 2025Article
- Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Review
- Seeking consensus on the domestication concept.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Dated Phylogeny ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Human dietary diversity in the Colombian Andes at the terminal Pleistocene-late Holocene sites Tequendama and Aguazuque.iScience · 2025Article
- Quantifying past forest cover and biomass changes in the Ecuadorian Amazon.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Not evolved to save the planet, yet capable to promote pro-environmental action leveraging human nature.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Genomic consequences of açaí extraction in the Amazon: insights into selective pressures, genomic diversity, and population structure.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- A revisited history of cacao domestication in pre-Columbian times revealed by archaeogenomic approaches.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system.Nature · 2024Article
- Landscape-scale spatial variations of pre-Columbian anthropogenic disturbances at three ring ditch sites in French Guiana.PloS one · 2024Article
- Climate change and long-term human behaviour in the Neotropics: an archaeological view from the Global South.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon.Science advances · 2023Article
- Predicting the geographic distribution of ancient Amazonian archaeological sites with machine learning.PeerJ · 2023Article
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Abstract
During the twentieth century, Amazonia was widely regarded as relatively pristine nature, little impacted by human history. This view remains popular despite mounting evidence of substantial human influence over millennial scales across the region. Here, we review the evidence of an anthropogenic Amazonia in response to claims of sparse populations across broad portions of the region. Amazonia was a major centre of crop domestication, with at least 83 native species containing populations domesticated to some degree. Plant domestication occurs in domesticated landscapes, including highly modified Amazonian dark earths (ADEs) associated with large settled populations and that may cover greater than 0.1% of the region. Populations and food production expanded rapidly within land management systems in the mid-Holocene, and complex societies expanded in resource-rich areas creating domesticated landscapes with profound impacts on local and regional ecology. ADE food production projections support estimates of at least eight million people in 1492. By this time, highly diverse regional systems had developed across Amazonia where subsistence resources were created with plant and landscape domestication, including earthworks. This review argues that the Amazonian anthrome was no less socio-culturally diverse or populous than other tropical forested areas of the world prior to European conquest.
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