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Stable isotope evidence for dietary diversification in the pre-Columbian Amazon.
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- Maize-based polyculture, not monoculture, sustained precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado.Science advances · 2026Article
- Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Human dietary diversity in the Colombian Andes at the terminal Pleistocene-late Holocene sites Tequendama and Aguazuque.iScience · 2025Article
- South American Archaeological Isotopic Database, a regional-scale multi-isotope data compendium for research.Scientific data · 2024Article
- The role of farming and fishing in the rise of social complexity in the Central Andes: a stable isotope perspective.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Chemical analysis of pottery reveals the transition from a maritime to a plant-based economy in pre-colonial coastal Brazil.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Stable isotope data and radiocarbon dates from Brazilian bioarchaeological samples: An extensive compilation.Data in brief · 2022Article
- Late Holocene dietary and cultural variability on the Xingu River, Amazon Basin: A stable isotopic approach.PloS one · 2022Article
- Fishing intensification as response to Late Holocene socio-ecological instability in southeastern South America.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Archaeological research is radically transforming the view that the Amazon basin and surrounding areas witnessed limited societal development before European contact. Nevertheless, uncertainty remains on the nature of the subsistence systems and the role that aquatic resources, terrestrial mammalian game, and plants had in supporting population growth, geographic dispersal, cultural adaptations and political complexity during the later stages of the pre-Columbian era. This is exacerbated by the general paucity of archaeological human remains enabling individual dietary reconstructions. Here we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone collagen to reconstruct the diets of human individuals from São Luís Island (Brazilian Amazon coast) dated between ca. 1800 and 1000 cal BP and associated with distinct ceramic traditions. We expanded our analysis to include previously published data from Maracá and Marajó Island, in the eastern Amazon. Quantitative estimates of the caloric contributions from food groups and their relative nutrients using a Bayesian Mixing Model revealed distinct subsistence strategies, consisting predominantly of plants and terrestrial mammals and variably complemented with aquatic resources. This study offers novel quantitative information on the extent distinct food categories of polyculture agroforestry systems fulfilled the caloric and protein requirements of Late Holocene pre-Columbian populations in the Amazon basin.
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