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Reliance Upon a Toxic Staple Crop: An Anthropological Consideration of the Tukanoan Amerindian Cultivation of Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in North-western Amazonia Get access

Warren Wilson and Darna L. Dufour
in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet
Published: 10 May 2017
... Tukanoan Indians Indians farming practices farming development Despite the fact that tropical rainforests have the highest primary productivity of any terrestrial ecosystem ( Whitmore 1998 ), their dispersed floral and faunal food resources, intense herbivore pressure, and a high frequency of plants...