Forest Use at Te Zulay, an ancient community at the Mouth of The Pastaza River in the Upper Amazonia

Author(s): Jessica Bautista

Year: 2024

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The use of plants of ancient Amazonian societies is currently heavily debated. Much of such it concerns the difficulty of finding good paleobotanic evidence in archaeological contexts. Lately, old plant use strategies have been reconstructed mainly based on phytoliths, starch, and pollen evidence. However, the present study is focused on charred wood samples from Te Zulay, a mounded site located on the banks of the Pastaza River on the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon. The anthracological results indicate Te Zulay inhabitants’ preferences for certain types of trees during their period of occupation of the site.

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Forest Use at Te Zulay, an ancient community at the Mouth of The Pastaza River in the Upper Amazonia. Jessica Bautista. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499790)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -60.82; min lat: -39.232 ; max long: -28.213; max lat: 14.775 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 39718.0