Search Results - "Heckenberger, Michael"
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The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-08-2015)“…During the twentieth century, Amazonia was widely regarded as relatively pristine nature, little impacted by human history. This view remains popular despite…”
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The Call of the Wild: Rethinking Food Production in Ancient Amazonia
Published in Annual review of anthropology (21-10-2019)“…The Amazon basin is accepted as an independent center of plant domestication in the world. A variety of important plants were domesticated in the Amazon and…”
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Who is Amazonia? The 'salt of the matter' for indigenous sustainability
Published in Environmental research letters (01-12-2013)“…The recent article 'Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto environmental knowledge as sexual education' (Echeverri and Román-Jitdutjaãno 2013 Environ. Res. Lett…”
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Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-08-2008)“…The archaeology of pre-Columbian polities in the Amazon River basin forces a reconsideration of early urbanism and long-term change in tropical forest…”
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The legacy of cultural landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon: implications for biodiversity
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (28-02-2007)“…For centuries Amazonia has held the Western scientific and popular imagination as a primordial forest, only minimally impacted by small, simple and dispersed…”
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Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon
Published in Ecology and society (01-06-2017)“…Sustainability science focuses on generating and applying knowledge to environmentally sound human development around the world. It requires working toward…”
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Intensification of fire regimes and forest loss in the Território Indígena do Xingu
Published in Environmental research letters (01-04-2022)“…The contemporary fire regime of southern Amazonian forests has been dominated by interactions between droughts and sources of fire ignition associated with…”
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Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (19-09-2003)“…Archaeology and indigenous history of Native Amazonian peoples in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil reveal unexpectedly complex regional settlement patterns and…”
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Response to comment by McMichael, Piperno and Bush
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Biocultural Diversity in the Southern Amazon
Published in Diversity (Basel) (01-01-2010)“…Recent studies in Amazonia historical ecology have revealed substantial diversity and dynamic change in coupled natural human systems. In the southern Amazon,…”
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Public feedback at risk in Brazil
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Volume 2: East Asia and the Americas
Published in Antiquity (01-06-2015)“…[...]nowhere is the question of relevance addressed head on. Yet, here again, European terms (Neolithic, Early and Upper Palaeolithic, the Bronze and Iron…”
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The Same, but Different: Indigenous Knowledge Retention, Erosion, and Innovation in the Brazilian Amazon
Published in Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal (01-08-2017)“…This study explores how indigenous knowledge (IK) might be retained and/or changed among contemporary indigenous peoples. Through semi-structured interviews…”
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Manioc agriculture and sedentism in Amazonia: the Upper Xingu example
Published in Antiquity (01-09-1998)“…Agricultural productivity and Amazonian settlement The nature of Pre-Columbian agricultural systems in Amazonia has stimulated considerable debate,…”
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Journal club. An archaeologist looks at South America's early complex societies
Published in Nature (London) (09-04-2009)Get full text
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JOURNAL CLUB
Published in Nature (London) (09-04-2009)“…The early complex societies of South America prompt debate over what constitutes urbanism and 'civil society' in its earliest and most minute forms,and make us…”
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An archaeologist looks at South America's early complex societies
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