In this chapter, we review archaeobotanical evidence for indigenous people’s uses of food plants during the Holocene in what is now Brazil. We present diversity plant species used, which includes native crops, such as manioc; exotic maize; well fruit trees, nut and palms. discuss their association with varied human foodways, strategies management, histories domestication dispersal plants. To pr...

In East Timor’s diversified subsistence economy, rice and maize are today common staples in some areas but root crops and arboriculture, too, play an important role. Although a cultural and chronometric framework for the introduction of agriculture in East Timor has long been proposed, little is known about the exact history of early plant use in the island. This paper deals with preliminary fi...

The role of the adoption farming economies in transformation mid-Holocene landscapes Northeast Iberia is under discussion given that Neolithization coincides with cold climatic phase dated ca. 7500–7000 cal BP. main aim this paper to assess whether human activities or climate were driver vegetation changes during Middle Holocene through study archaeobotanical data from three case studies: Cova ...

Abstract Continuation of archaeobotanical and palaeoecological research on three semi-artificial lake islands, Nowy Dworek, Chycina Lubniewice, has provided new information the history, development use grasslands in Ziemia Lubuska (Lubusz land) western Poland during early Middle Ages. Pollen analysis reveals that reduction woodland opening up regional landscape appearance grassland communities ...

Climate change is often cited in the ‘collapse’ of complex societies and linked to agricultural resilience or lack thereof. In this article, authors consider how demand affected strategies as farmers navigated transformations Late Harappan phase ( c . 1900–1700 BC) Indus tradition. Through modelling monocropping/multicropping, low/high yield crops, supply-driven versus flexible production, vari...