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Plants used in the Indigenous Caribbean: a database of plants in reference to the archaeological literature (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Natasha Fernandez-Perez. Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the dynamics between plants and people in the Neotropics are central for the understanding of both forests and human societies. However, in the archaeological literature of the Caribbean there is no single analysis listing the range of plants used and for what purposes. Upon this situation, we have undergone the task of reviewing the existing paleobotanical literature from a Pan-Caribbean perspective, and assembling a database. It includes each plant...