‘Moving South’: Late Pleistocene plant exploitation and the importance of palm in the Colombian Amazon
dc.contributor.author | Robinson, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Morcote-Rios, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Aceituno, FJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Roberts, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Berrío, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Iriarte, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-03T10:34:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-24 | |
dc.description.abstract | The role of plants in early human migrations across the globe has received little attention compared to big game hunting. Tropical forests in particular have been seen as a barrier for Late Pleistocene human dispersals due to perceived difficulties in obtaining sufficient subsistence resources. Archaeobotanical data from the Cerro Azul rock outcrop in the Colombian Amazon details Late Pleistocene plant exploitation providing insight into early human subsistence in the tropical forest. The dominance of palm taxa in the assemblage, dating from 12.5 ka BP, allows us to speculate on processes of ecological knowledge transfer and the identification of edible resources in a novel environment. Following the hypothesis of Martin Jones from his 2009 work, “Moving North: archaeobotanical evidence for plant diet in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe”, we contend that the instantly recognizable and economically useful palm family (Arecaceae) provided a “gateway” to the unknown resources of the Amazon forest. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter’s Exploration Fund | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ERC LASTJOURNEY | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Santo Domingo Centre (SDCELAR) of British Museum | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 4, No. 2, article 26 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/quat4030026 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 199 2017 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2018 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ERC_Adv_ 834514 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126957 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI AG | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Amazon | en_GB |
dc.subject | Late Pleistocene | en_GB |
dc.subject | archaeobotany | en_GB |
dc.subject | palm | en_GB |
dc.subject | ecological knowledge | en_GB |
dc.subject | plant exploitation | en_GB |
dc.subject | peopling South America | en_GB |
dc.title | ‘Moving South’: Late Pleistocene plant exploitation and the importance of palm in the Colombian Amazon | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-03T10:34:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2571-550X | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from MDPI via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Quaternary | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-07-08 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-08-24 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-09-03T10:30:03Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-09-03T10:34:22Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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