Evidence for cultivar adoption and emerging complexity during the mid-Holocene in the La Plata basin

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7017, 2004, Pages 614-617

  Iriarte, José ^a   Holst, Irene ^a   Marozzi, Oscar ^b   Listopad, Claudia ^c   Alonso, Eduardo ^d   Rinderknecht, Andrés ^e   Montaña, Juan ^f  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Fac de Hum y Cie de la Educacion   (Uruguay)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^e Museo de Historia Natural y Antropología   (Uruguay)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PLANNING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BEFORE PRESENT (BP); INHABITANTS;

WETLANDS;

CARBON 14;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTIVAR; HOLOCENE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BOTANY; CULTIVAR; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY, ANCIENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; URUGUAY; ZEA MAYS;

LA PLATA BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10344220505     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02983     Document Type: Article

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