Legumes, broadly defined by their unusual flower structure, podded fruit, and the ability of
88% of the species examined to date to form nodules with rhizobia (de Faria et al., 1989) …

During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly
debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Although aquatic resources are often seen as central to the development of post-Pleistocene
cultural complexity, most models of human evolution have all but ignored the role of aquatic …

There may have been 4-5 million people in Amazonia at the time of European contact.
These people cultivated or managed at least 138 plant species in 1492. Many of these crop …

At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the
middle of the twenty-first century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this …

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY REPRESENTS a new perspective on understanding the complex
historical relationship between human beings and the biosphere of earth. Contributors to …