Engineered feature used to enhance gardening at a 3800-year-old site on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Sci Adv
; 2(12): e1601282, 2016 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-28028536
ABSTRACT
Humans use a variety of deliberate means to modify biologically rich environs in pursuit of resource stability and predictability. Empirical evidence suggests that ancient hunter-gatherer populations engineered ecological niches to enhance the productivity and availability of economically significant resources. An archaeological excavation of a 3800-year-old wetland garden in British Columbia, Canada, provides the first direct evidence of an engineered feature designed to facilitate wild plant food production among mid-to-late Holocene era complex fisher-hunter-gatherers of the Northwest Coast. This finding provides an example of environmental, economic, and sociopolitical coevolutionary relationships that are triggered when humans manipulate niche environs.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Arqueología
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Historia Antigua
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Jardinería
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Adv
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá