dc.contributor.author | Iriarte, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Richard Smith, RS | |
dc.contributor.author | Jonas Gregorio de Souza, JS | |
dc.contributor.author | Francis Mayle, FM | |
dc.contributor.author | Bronwen Whitney, BW | |
dc.contributor.author | Macarena Cardenas, MC | |
dc.contributor.author | Joy Singarayer, JS | |
dc.contributor.author | John Carson, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Shovonlal Roy, SR | |
dc.contributor.author | Paul Valdes, PV | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-03T13:08:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | The late Holocene expansion of the Tupi-Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~ 4000 km between latitudes 0°S and 35°S at about 2500 yr B.P. However, the underlying reasons for this expansion are a matter of debate. Here, we compare continental-scale paleoecological, paleoclimate, and archaeological datasets, to examine the role of climate change in facilitating the expansion of this forest-farming culture. Because this expansion lies within the path of the South American Low-Level Jet, the key mechanism for moisture transport across lowland South America, we were able to explore the relationship between climate change, forest expansion, and the Tupi-Guarani. Our data synthesis shows broad synchrony between late Holocene increasing precipitation and southerly expansion of both tropical forest and Guarani archaeological sites – the southernmost branch of the Tupi-Guarani. We conclude that climate change likely facilitated expansion of the Guarani forest-farming culture by increasing the area of forested landscape that they could exploit, showing a prime example of ecological opportunism. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The ideas and themes developed in this paper stem from a European Research Council project ‘Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations’ (ERC-CoG 616179) to JI. The University of Reading’s ‘Centre for Past Climate Change’ funded a writing workshop for this paper. RS was funded by an NERC ‘Scenario’ DTP PhD award. JGS was funded by a CAPES PhD scholarship (Ministry of Education, Brazil). JFC and MLC received postdoctoral funding from the University of Reading and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, respectively. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 27 (7), pp. 967-975 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33893 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2016. Reprints and permissions:
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dc.subject | Amazonia | en_GB |
dc.subject | human ecology | en_GB |
dc.subject | language expansion | en_GB |
dc.subject | late-Holocene climate change | en_GB |
dc.subject | palaeoclimate | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tupi–Guarani | en_GB |
dc.title | Out of Amazonia: Late Holocene Climate Change and the Tupi-Guarani Trans-Continental Expansion | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-03T13:08:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0080-4649 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | The Holocene | en_GB |