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Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology

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In this chapter, the reader will find guidelines and suggestions for the application of ethnobotanical and ethnoecological methods in archaeological sites and their surroundings, aiming to establish a closer dialogue between ethnobiology and archaeology for understanding the human history of past and present landscapes. The goal of such methodological proposals is to document the knowledge and practices of human populations that live on and around archaeological sites concerning the vegetation of these areas. The methods presented here can shed light on specific questions about the relationships between past human populations and their plant resources (e.g., practices of use, management, and domestication), helping to understand how people transformed the landscape and how the legacies of such relationships are visible in the present. This chapter is collectively written by ethnobiologists, botanists, ecologists, and archaeologists from several institutions working in the Amazon basin. Thus, examples presented here come mainly from research conducted in this region.

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  1. Laboratório de Arqueologia, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá (IDSM), Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil

    Mariana Franco Cassino & Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha

  2. Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Rubana Palhares Alves, Carolina Levis & Sara Deambrozi Coelho

  3. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE), University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Jennifer Watling, Laura P. Furquim & Eduardo Góes Neves

  4. International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    André Braga Junqueira

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    Myrtle P. Shock

  6. Programa de Pós Graduação em Botânica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Maria Julia Ferreira

  7. Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

    Victor Lery Caetano Andrade

  8. Coordenação de Tecnologia e Inovação, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Charles R. Clement

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Cassino, M.F. et al. (2019). Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In: Albuquerque, U., de Lucena, R., Cruz da Cunha, L., Alves, R. (eds) Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology . Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_13

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