The formation of fire residues associated with hunter-gatherers in humid tropical environments: A geo-ethnoarchaeological perspective

Friesem, David E.; Lavi, Noa; Madella, Marco; Ajithparsad, P.; French, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.07.002

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“…There is even evidence of hominid adaptations in humid and dense environments. Among these adaptations, we can include the use of fire [ 28 ], and traces of foraging activities in the interior of the rainforest [ 55 ]. The idea of hominid origin and evolution in rainforests is not new.…”

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Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

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Adaptive memory is the propensity of human memory to easily store and retrieve important information to deal with challenges related to the Pleistocene. Recent evidence shows that humans have had a multiregional evolution across the African continent, including the rainforests and deciduous forests; however, there is little evidence regarding the implications of these origins and the relevant and recurring challenges of these environments on survival processing advantage in memory. In this study, we conducted an experiment with volunteers to analyze whether adaptive memory operates in the retrieval of important information to solve challenges of using medicinal plants to treat diseases in the ancestral environments of the savanna, rainforests, and deciduous forests compared to the modern environments of desert, tundra, coniferous forest, and urban areas. We used simulated survival environments and asked volunteers (30 per simulated scenario) to imagine themselves sick in one of these environments, and needing to find medicinal plants to treat their disease. The volunteers rated the relevance of 32 words to solve this challenge, followed by a surprise memory test. Our results showed no ancestral priority in recalling relevant information, as both ancestral and modern environments showed a similar recall of relevant information. This suggests that the evolved cognitive apparatus allows human beings to survive and can create survival strategies to face challenges imposed in various environments. We believe that this is only possible if the human mind operates through a flexible cognitive mechanism. This flexibility can reflect, for example, the different environments that the first hominids inhabited and the different dangerous situations that they faced.

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“…In this sense, based on recent paleoanthropological evidence from the fossils of the first human beings [ 18 , 20 , 28 , 29 ], we consider the rainforest, deciduous forests, and the savanna asancestral environments. For example, recent fossil evidence suggests that H .…”

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Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

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“…Kot izjemno lahek, porozen in kemijsko hitro reaktiven material (Karkanas 2021, 11, 30) je pepel izpostavljen številnim sin-in postdepozicijskim spremembam, od katerih so mnoge vezane na delovanje vetra in vode. Več eksperimentalnih in geoetnografskih študij (Friesem et al 2017;Miller et al 2010;Mallol et al 2007) je npr. pokazalo, da je večina pepela s kurišč na prostem že v 7-10 dneh razpihana, odplavljena ali raztopljena, leto dni po opustitvi kurišč pa razen pordečenega zemljenega substrata in drobcev oglja na lokaciji ni več opaznih znakov kurjenja (Mallol et al 2007(Mallol et al , 2047(Mallol et al -2048.…”

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“... alle drew Purchstal”: arheološke raziskave gradov vitezov Jeterbenških v pogorju Jeterbenka nad Medvodami

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“…[20] compared data from vegetation surveys with Neolithic drift litter while [21] compared plant remains to existing plant communities of the Doubs river. For micro-remains (pollen and phytoliths), studies of modern analogue data were generally more often integrated into archaeological interpretations than for macro-remains [22][23][24][25][26]. [27] compared modern analogue phytolith assemblages of different types of rice fields and carried out modern ethnographic studies in order to inform the interpretation of archaeological phytolith assemblages [28].…”

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Languedoc lagoon environments and man: Building a modern analogue botanical macroremain database for understanding the role of water and edaphology in sedimentation dynamics of archaeobotanical remains at the Roman port of Lattara (Lattes, France)

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A new method to evaluate archaeological wetland sites in a more objective way was tested. Different wetland environments have been sampled in areas of a nature reserve and their macroremain content analysed to build a modern analogue dataset. This dataset was then used to characterise archaeological samples from a navigation channel from the Roman port city Lattara. In the modern analogue samples, the different wetland types (saline/brackish or fresh water) could be differentiated in the correspondence analysis. Within these groups, the sampled area of the littoral (submerged, shoreline, unsubmerged) could also be differentiated. This dataset can therefore provide a basis for the interpretation of the nature and degree of aquatic influence and layer formation processes in archaeobotanical records of coastal sites. In the tested archaeological samples from the navigation channel of Lattara, changes in space and time could be tracked using the modern analogue dataset and geoarchaeological information. The channel lost its fresh water supply and silted up over a short period of time (approx. 100 years).

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The formation of fire residues associated with hunter-gatherers in humid tropical environments: A geo-ethnoarchaeological perspective

Cited by 19 publications

References 78 publications

Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

Memory for medicinal plants remains in ancient and modern environments suggesting an evolved adaptedness

“... alle drew Purchstal”: arheološke raziskave gradov vitezov Jeterbenških v pogorju Jeterbenka nad Medvodami

Languedoc lagoon environments and man: Building a modern analogue botanical macroremain database for understanding the role of water and edaphology in sedimentation dynamics of archaeobotanical remains at the Roman port of Lattara (Lattes, France)

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