Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil?

ABSTRACT: This work provides robust oral pathology and stable isotope evidence on Bayesian mixing model for an unexpectedly high consumption of carbohydrates by a Middle Holocene coastal population of the Atlantic Forest of South America, an area traditionally viewed as peripheral to early centres of food production on the continent. A diversified economy with substantial consumption of plant resources was in place at the shellmound (or sambaqui) of Morro do Ouro, in Babitonga Bay, and supported a dense population at ca 4500 cal BP. This dietary composition is unique when compared with that of other contemporary and later groups in the region, including peoples who used ceramics and domesticated crops. The results corroborate independent dietary evidence, such as stone tool artefacts f

SUBMITTER: Pezo-Lanfranco L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170589 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature