New insights from pre-Columbian land use and fire management in Amazonian dark earth forests

SY Maezumi, M Robinson, J De Souza… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic climate change driven by increased carbon emissions is leading to more
severe fire seasons and increasing the frequency of mega-fires in the Amazon. This has the …

The constructed biodiversity, forest management and use of fire in ancient Amazon: an archaeological testimony on the last 14,000 years of indigenous history

LP Furquim, EG Neves, MP Shock, J Watling - Global Ecology in Historical …, 2023 - Springer
Tropical rainforests have retained an image of being pristine environments scarcely
occupied by humans over the millennia. Archaeological research carried out in the last thirty …

[KNIHA][B] Dark Earth plant management in the Lower Tapajós

DT Alves - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The highly fertile Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) results from landscape
transformations found in association with archaeological sites throughout Amazonia. In the …

[KNIHA][B] Regional complementarity and place-making in the Northern region of the Tapajós National Forest Reservation, Lower Amazon, Brazil

CG Figueiredo - 2019 - search.proquest.com
From the tenth to the eighteenth centuries in the late pre-colonial period, Indigenous
communities associated with the Santarém ceramic style lived in settlements of various sizes …