Trees, shrubs, and forests at Joya de Cerén, a Late Classic Mesoamerican village

Slotten, Venicia; Lentz, David L.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.02.026

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“…Additionally, there has been a debate regarding the size criteria for certain species of domesticated fruits (Runnels and Hansen, 1986;Liphschitz and Bonani, 2001;Liphschitz et al, 2013;Dighton et al, 2017). This problem can be solved by charcoal analysis from fruit-tree remains in archeological sites (Wang et al, 2014(Wang et al, , 2016Asouti and Kabukcu, 2021;Moskal-del Hoyo, 2021), because a large number of archeological sites around the world contain charcoal from fruit trees that was left behind in a combustion process resulting from human management of fruit trees (Wang et al, 2014(Wang et al, , 2016Asouti and Kabukcu, 2021;Shen and Li, 2021;Slotten and Lentz, 2021). Therefore, analysis of charcoal from fruit trees in archeological sites can help with understanding the history of prehistoric fruit trees utilization by humans in the NETP.…”

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How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Zhang

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Front. Plant Sci.

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The history of fruit-tree utilization by prehistoric people has become an important issue that has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the question of how people used fruit trees has not yet been answered; in particular, the impacts of different subsistence strategies on human behavior regarding fruit-tree utilization (wild gathering or conscious cultivation) have not yet been considered. Here, we present the results of charcoal identification of fruit trees from 16 dated archeological sites in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (NETP) spanning the period c. 5,200–2,600 BP. We combine this with reported multidisciplinary evidence to explore the history of fruit-tree utilization as well as its relation to the subsistence strategy in the NETP during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Our results demonstrate that Rosaceae [Prunus L., Prunus Padus L., Maloideae L., and Malus baccata (L.) Borkh], Elaeagnaceae (Hippophae L. and Elaeagnus angustifolia L.), and Rhamnaceae (only Ziziphus Mill.) were used by people in the NETP, and there was a downward trend in the use of fruit trees during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. This is in notable contrast to the situation in the Chinese Loess Plateau in the parallel period. The cold-dry climate during the Bronze Age seemed to be one of the reasons. The fruit trees used by people in the NETP were likely gathered from the wild rather than consciously cultivated, and the subsistence strategy of agropastoralism may have played a significant role during the processes.

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How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Zhang

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Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies

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Morell-Hart

2023

J Archaeol Res

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Pre-Columbian food production in the Maya Lowlands was long characterized as reliant on extensive, slash-and-burn agriculture as the sole cultivation system possible in the region, given environmental limitations, with maize as the dominant crop. While aspects of this “swidden thesis” of Maya agriculture have been chipped away in recent years, there has been an underappreciation of the many forms of long-term capital investments in agriculture made by ancient Maya people. Here, we review the last three decades of research that has overturned the swidden thesis, focusing on long-term strategies. We demonstrate long-lasting agricultural investments by Maya people, in social capital including multigenerational land tenure, in cultivated capital including long-lived trees, and in landesque capital including soil amendments and landscape engineering projects, such as terracing and wetland modification.

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Trees, shrubs, and forests at Joya de Cerén, a Late Classic Mesoamerican village

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How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies

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