Amazonia and the Anthropocene: What was the spatial extent and intensity of human landscape modification in the Amazon Basin at the end of prehistory?

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1588-1597

  Piperno, Dolores R ^a,b   McMichael, Crystal ^c   Bush, Mark B ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Anthropocene; human societies; landscape; modification; phytoliths; prehistory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOODING; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOLITH; PREHISTORIC; REFORESTATION; SAVANNA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AMAZON BASIN; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84941892806     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615588374     Document Type: Article

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