ArticleCommunications biology2020
Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest.
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- Maize-based polyculture, not monoculture, sustained precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado.Science advances · 2026Article
- Analysis of Early Iron Age (2500 BP) and modern period (150 BP) starch grains in Western Central Africa.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Human behaviour and climate-linked fluctuations in the rainforests of West-Central Africa.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Late Holocene dietary and cultural variability on the Xingu River, Amazon Basin: A stable isotopic approach.PloS one · 2022Article
- Dental calculus: A repository of bioinformation indicating diseases and human evolution.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
The emergence of agriculture in Central Africa has previously been associated with the migration of Bantu-speaking populations during an anthropogenic or climate-driven 'opening' of the rainforest. However, such models are based on assumptions of environmental requirements of key crops (e.g. Pennisetum glaucum) and direct insights into human dietary reliance remain absent. Here, we utilise stable isotope analysis (δ
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