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)
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Keywords
General
historical ecology
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Paleoethnobotany
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Woodland
Geographic Keywords
South America: Eastern South America
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