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Introduction Introduction
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The Neotropical Zooarchaeological Record The Neotropical Zooarchaeological Record
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Humanized Landscapes in the Pre-Columbian Neotropics Humanized Landscapes in the Pre-Columbian Neotropics
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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40 Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America
Get accessPeter W. Stahl is an archaeologist interested in South American archaeology, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, historical ecology, tropical forest ecology, and lowland South American ethnography. His research focus is on the lowland neotropics, principally in western Ecuador. He has studied zooarchaeological assemblages from Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Ghana, and Iraq at major research collections in Europe and North America. He received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently Professor (Limited Term) of Anthropology, University of Victoria (Canada), and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University (State University of New York, USA).
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Published:05 April 2017
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Abstract
Despite various problems associated with the practice of zooarchaeology in the neotropics, archaeologists have recovered impressive evidence from caves and open air sites for early landscape management and food production in northwestern South America, a region renowned for harbouring elevated species richness and high rates of endemism. The trajectory for subsequent pre-Columbian cultural developments in the area was established very early through the precocious achievements of its earliest Holocene human occupations. Archaeobiological evidence is used to outline the subsequent development and elaboration of indigenous agricultural systems and trade networks up to their cataclysmic encounter with invading European populations in the early sixteenth century.
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