Pre-Columbian agriculture, fire, and Spanish contact: A 4200-year record from Laguna Los Mangos, Costa Rica

Pre-Columbian agriculture, fire, and Spanish contact: A 4200-year record from Laguna Los Mangos, Costa Rica

We present a lake-sediment record of pre-Columbian agriculture and fire history from the lowlands of southern Pacific Costa Rica that captures the arrival of maize agriculture at ca. 3360 cal yr BP in the Diquís subregion of the Gran Chiriquí archeological region. Our 4200-year record from Laguna...

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Main Authors: Horn, S.P (Author), Johanson, E.N (Author), Lane, C.S (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Ltd 2019
Subjects:
agricultural domestication
Costa Rica
fire history
human–environment interaction
lacustrine deposit
lake sediments
lowland environment
microfossil
Neotropical Region
Neotropics
palynology
Precambrian
watershed
wildfire
Zea mays
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