The Amazonian formative: Crop domestication and anthropogenic soils

Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-504

  Arroyo Kalin, Manuel ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Anthropogenic dark earths; Anthropogenic landscape transformations; Formative; Geoarchaeology; Historical ecology; Landscape domestication; Manioc; Plant domestication; Soil micromorphology; Terras mulatas; Terras pretas

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP; DOMESTICATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MICROMORPHOLOGY;

AMAZONIA;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 77952289067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d2040473     Document Type: Article

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