Direct archaeological evidence for Southwestern Amazonia as an early plant domestication and food production centre.

Southwestern Amazonia is considered an early centre of plant domestication in the New World, but most of the evidence for this hypothesis comes from genetic data since systematic archaeological fieldwork in the area is recent. This paper provides first-hand archaeobotanical evidence of food producti...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Watling, Myrtle P Shock, Guilherme Z Mongeló, Fernando O Almeida, Thiago Kater, Paulo E De Oliveira, Eduardo G Neves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6059402?pdf=render