Ancient plant management at ADEs on Santarem region from an archaeobotanical approach

Summary

ADEs are highly fertile soils found in association with archaeological sites all over the Amazonia that result from ancient societies’ landscape management. We present preliminary results on the research of plant consumption on Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) sites at Santarem region, Lower Amazon. To tackle questions concerning plant food production and the formation of ADEs at the region three sites are under investigation from an archaeobotanical approach: Serra do Maguari and Cedro on terra firme plateau and the riverine Porto de Santarem. Soil samples for phytolith and micro charcoal analyses were collected in test pits column soils and excavations on the sites. So far, palm phytoliths were identified on samples from Serra do Maguari.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Amazonian landscapes

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