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Nicole Boivin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, C O Hunt, Manuel Arroyokalin, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:Archaeological Evidence reveals the impacts of ancient hunter-gatherers and settlers on tropical forests over the last 45,000 years. Archaeology can thus play an important role in promoting heritage and informing conservation and policy-making.
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The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature Plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, Manuel Arroyo-kalin, Chris Hunt, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:first paragraph Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource mining, livestock grazing, and urban settlement. Cumulative Archaeological Evidence now demonstrates, however, that Homo sapiens has actively manipulated tropical forest ecologies for at least 45,000 years. It is clear that these millennia of impacts need to be taken into account when studying and conserving tropical forest ecosystems today. Nevertheless, archaeology has so far provided only limited practical insight into contemporary human-tropical forest interactions. Here, we review significant Archaeological Evidence for the impacts of past hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and urban settlements on global tropical forests. We compare the challenges faced, as well as the solutions adopted, by these groups with those confronting present-day societies, which also rely on tropical forests for a variety of ecosystem services. We emphasise archaeology's importance not only in promoting natural and cultural heritage in tropical forests, but also in taking an active role to inform modern conservation and policy-making.
Joyce Marcus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Archaeological Evidence for social evolution
Social Science Research Network, 2008Co-Authors: Joyce MarcusAbstract:Social evolution is the appearance of new forms of social or sociopolitical organization, without necessarily implying changes in overall culture or ethnicity. Evolution is most successfully studied when ethnologists or ethnohistorians collaborate with archaeologists. While ethnologists can provide unequaled detail on agents and institutions, many evolutionary transitions took longer than any ethnologist's lifetime. The Archaeological record therefore provides an important proving ground for evolutionary theory. In this paper, I synthesize some of the supporting Evidence for social evolution from both Old World and New World archaeology. I also argue that for the study of social evolution to advance, the field of anthropology must outlast postmodernism, political correctness, antipathy to generalization, and denial of comparisons and contrasts.
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The Archaeological Evidence for Social Evolution
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2008Co-Authors: Joyce MarcusAbstract:Social evolution can be defined as the appearance of new forms of social or sociopolitical organization. In the case of the prehistoric record, such changes are perhaps most successfully studied when archaeologists collaborate with ethnologists or ethnohistorians. Although ethnologists can provide unequaled detail on agents and institutions, many evolutionary transitions took longer than any ethnologist's lifetime. The Archaeological record therefore provides an important proving ground for evolutionary theory. In this review, I synthesize some of the Evidence supporting social evolution from both Old World and New World archaeology. I also argue that for the study of social evolution to advance, the field of anthropology must be willing to generalize; to compare and contrast cultures from different parts of the world; and to search for common patterns in the ways human societies responded to similar challenges.
Patrick Roberts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, C O Hunt, Manuel Arroyokalin, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:Archaeological Evidence reveals the impacts of ancient hunter-gatherers and settlers on tropical forests over the last 45,000 years. Archaeology can thus play an important role in promoting heritage and informing conservation and policy-making.
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The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature Plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, Manuel Arroyo-kalin, Chris Hunt, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:first paragraph Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource mining, livestock grazing, and urban settlement. Cumulative Archaeological Evidence now demonstrates, however, that Homo sapiens has actively manipulated tropical forest ecologies for at least 45,000 years. It is clear that these millennia of impacts need to be taken into account when studying and conserving tropical forest ecosystems today. Nevertheless, archaeology has so far provided only limited practical insight into contemporary human-tropical forest interactions. Here, we review significant Archaeological Evidence for the impacts of past hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and urban settlements on global tropical forests. We compare the challenges faced, as well as the solutions adopted, by these groups with those confronting present-day societies, which also rely on tropical forests for a variety of ecosystem services. We emphasise archaeology's importance not only in promoting natural and cultural heritage in tropical forests, but also in taking an active role to inform modern conservation and policy-making.
Damian Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mahendraparvata an early angkor period capital defined through airborne laser scanning at phnom kulen
Antiquity, 2019Co-Authors: Jean Baptiste Chevance, Damian Evans, Nina Hofer, Sakada Sakhoeun, Ratha ChheanAbstract:Inscriptional Evidence suggests that the Phnom Kulen plateau to the north-east of Angkor in Cambodia was the location of Mahendraparvata—an early Angkorian capital city and one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire (ninth to fifteenth centuries AD). To date, however, Archaeological Evidence has been limited to a scatter of small and apparently isolated shrines. Here, the authors combine airborne laser scanning with ground-based survey to define an extended urban network dating from the ninth century AD, which they identify as Mahendraparvata. This research yields new and important insights into the emergence of Angkorian urban areas.
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the deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, C O Hunt, Manuel Arroyokalin, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:Archaeological Evidence reveals the impacts of ancient hunter-gatherers and settlers on tropical forests over the last 45,000 years. Archaeology can thus play an important role in promoting heritage and informing conservation and policy-making.
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The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation
Nature Plants, 2017Co-Authors: Patrick Roberts, Manuel Arroyo-kalin, Chris Hunt, Damian Evans, Nicole BoivinAbstract:first paragraph Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource mining, livestock grazing, and urban settlement. Cumulative Archaeological Evidence now demonstrates, however, that Homo sapiens has actively manipulated tropical forest ecologies for at least 45,000 years. It is clear that these millennia of impacts need to be taken into account when studying and conserving tropical forest ecosystems today. Nevertheless, archaeology has so far provided only limited practical insight into contemporary human-tropical forest interactions. Here, we review significant Archaeological Evidence for the impacts of past hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and urban settlements on global tropical forests. We compare the challenges faced, as well as the solutions adopted, by these groups with those confronting present-day societies, which also rely on tropical forests for a variety of ecosystem services. We emphasise archaeology's importance not only in promoting natural and cultural heritage in tropical forests, but also in taking an active role to inform modern conservation and policy-making.
Christine S Vanpool - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the signs of the sacred identifying shamans using Archaeological Evidence
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2009Co-Authors: Christine S VanpoolAbstract:Anthropologists have determined that shamanism is a robust cross-cultural pattern, but they still have many methodological and theoretical issues to resolve. Central to Archaeological religious studies is the need to develop a general and rigorous methodology for identifying the presence and structure of shamanism. This discussion begins by discussing shamans as a polythetic class and proposes that shamans and priests as they are commonly defined do not represent dichotomous religious structures, but rather reflect two ends of a continuum. The paper then presents a methodology for identifying and studying shamanism based on cross-cultural regularities in shamanic tools (sacra) and shamanic experiences. The methodology is then applied to the Casas Grandes region and Pottery Mound, both from the North American Southwest, and indicates that shamanic ritual was likely present during the late prehistoric occupation of the region.
