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Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research by Piperno, Dolores R.

“…The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal…”
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Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium) by Henry, Amanda G., Brooks, Alison S., Piperno, Dolores R.

“…The nature and causes of the disappearance of Neanderthals and their apparent replacement by modern humans are subjects of considerable debate. Many…”
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Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans by Henry, Amanda G., Brooks, Alison S., Piperno, Dolores R.

“…One of the most important challenges in anthropology is understanding the disappearance of Neanderthals. Previous research suggests that Neanderthals had a…”
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Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins by Gremillion, Kristen J., Barton, Loukas, Piperno, Dolores R.

“…The introduction of new analytic methods and expansion of research into previously untapped regions have greatly increased the scale and resolution of data…”
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Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia by McMichael, C. H., Piperno, D. R., Bush, M. B., Silman, M. R., Zimmerman, A. R., Raczka, M. F., Lobato, L. C.

“…Locally extensive pre-Columbian human occupation and modification occurred in the forests of the central and eastern Amazon Basin, but whether comparable…”
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Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico by Piperno, Dolores R, Ranere, Anthony J, Holst, Irene, Iriarte, Jose, Dickau, Ruth

“…Questions that still surround the origin and early dispersals of maize (Zea mays L.) result in large part from the absence of information on its early history…”
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Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies by Larson, Greger, Piperno, Dolores R., Allaby, Robin G., Purugganan, Michael D., Andersson, Leif, Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel, Barton, Loukas, Vigueira, Cynthia Climer, Denham, Tim, Dobney, Keith, Doust, Andrew N., Gepts, Paul, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Gremillion, Kristen J., Lucas, Leilani, Lukens, Lewis, Marshall, Fiona B., Olsen, Kenneth M., Pires, Chris, Richerson, Peter J., de Casas, Rafael Rubio, Sanjur, Oris I., Thomas, Mark G.

“…It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions…”
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Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru by Piperno, Dolores R, Dillehay, Tom D

“…Previous research indicates that the Ñanchoc Valley in northern Peru was an important locus of early and middle Holocene human settlement, and that between…”
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cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico by Ranere, Anthony J, Piperno, Dolores R, Holst, Irene, Dickau, Ruth, Iriarte, José

“…Molecular evidence indicates that the wild ancestor of maize is presently native to the seasonally dry tropical forest of the Central Balsas watershed in…”
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Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru by Grobman, Alexander, Bonavia, Duccio, Dillehay, Tom D., Piperno, Dolores R., Iriarte, José, Holst, Irene

“…Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is among the world's most important and ancient domesticated crops. Although the chronology of its domestication and initial…”
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Identification of teosinte, maize, and Tripsacum in Mesoamerica by using pollen, starch grains, and phytoliths by Holst, Irene, Moreno, J. Enrique, Piperno, Dolores R

“…We examined pollen grains and starch granules from a large number of modern populations of teosinte (wild Zea spp.), maize (Zea mays L.), and closely related…”
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New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23 000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel by Nadel, Dani, Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Snir, Ainit, Weiss, Ehud

“…Traces of starch found on a large flat stone discovered in the hunter-fisher-gatherer site of Ohalo II famously represent the first identification of Upper…”
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Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas by Perry, Linda, Dickau, Ruth, Zarrillo, Sonia, Holst, Irene, Pearsall, Deborah M, Piperno, Dolores R, Berman, Mary Jane, Cooke, Richard G, Rademaker, Kurt, Ranere, Anthony J, Raymond, J. Scott, Sandweiss, Daniel H, Scaramelli, Franz, Tarble, Kay, Zeidler, James A

“…Chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) are widely cultivated food plants that arose in the Americas and are now incorporated into cuisines worldwide. Here, we report a…”
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The Earliest Archaeological Maize (Zea mays L.) from Highland Mexico: New Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dates and Their Implications by Piperno, D. R., Flannery, K. V.

“…Accelerator mass spectrometry age determinations of maize cobs (Zea mays L.) from Guilá Naquitz Cave in Oaxaca, Mexico, produced dates of 5,400 carbon-14 years…”
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico by Piperno, D.R, Moreno, J.E, Iriarte, J, Holst, I, Lachniet, M, Jones, J.G, Ranere, A.J, Castanzo, R

“…The origin of agriculture was a signal development in human affairs and as such has occupied the attention of scholars from the natural and social sciences for…”
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The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics: Patterns, Process, and New Developments by Piperno, Dolores R.

“…The New World tropical forest is now considered to be an early and independent cradle of agriculture. As in other areas of the world, our understanding of this…”
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Reply to Smith: On distinguishing between models, hypotheses, and theoretical frameworks by Gremillion, Kristen J, Barton, Loukas, Piperno, Dolores R

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Reply to Zeder: Maintaining a diverse scientific toolkit is not an act of faith by Gremillion, Kristen J, Barton, Loukas, Piperno, Dolores R

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Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest by Piperno, Dolores R, Ranere, Anthony J, Holst, Irene, Hansell, Patricia

“…Native American populations are known to have cultivated a large number of plants and domesticated them for their starch-rich underground organs. Suggestions…”
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Tropical forests as key sites of the “Anthropocene”: Past and present perspectives by Roberts, Patrick, Hamilton, Rebecca, Piperno, Dolores R.

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