Amazonian Palm and Tree Fruits Fed Residents during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition

Author(s): Myrtle Shock; Claide Paula Moraes; Manoel Fabiano Silva Santos

Year: 2023

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Thirty years after its first excavations, Caverna da Pedra Pintada continues to be one of the only sites in the Brazilian Amazon that dates to the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (over 12,000 cal BP). As such, understanding this site is pivotal to the interpretation of early human occupations and transformations of the tropical forest. Archaeobotanical analyses of seeds and fruits from excavations conducted in 2014 have revealed a diversity of edible plants, especially palm fruits, as well as temporal variation in the resources used. We will discuss these results and how they are suggestive of modifications to perennial plants’ distribution in the landscape and of how vegetation management proceeded over the Holocene.

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Amazonian Palm and Tree Fruits Fed Residents during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition. Myrtle Shock, Claide Paula Moraes, Manoel Fabiano Silva Santos. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474745)

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Keywords

General
Mortuary Analysis • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Subsistence and Foodways

Geographic Keywords
South America: Amazonia and Orinoco Basin

Spatial Coverage

min long: -81.914; min lat: -18.146 ; max long: -31.421; max lat: 11.781 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36856.0