Indigenous and colonial: a change in the way of living with the forest Based on their interpretation of the tree rings, the researchers were able to construct a picture of the life-histories of ...

Domestication in Motion: Macrofossils of Pre-Colonial Brazilian Nuts, Palms and Other Amazonian Planted Tree Species Found in the Upper Purus. Environmental Archaeology, 2020; 1 DOI: 10.1080 ...

This paper repositions iron smelting and the smelter at the centre of a revised narrative of pre- and early-colonial forest history and policy. In a medieval war economy the smelter shared a ...

A pre-colonial civilization unknown to scholars that built geometric ceremonial centers and sophisticated road systems. This civilization flourished in the rainforest area 2,000 years ago.

The global scope of the discussion about conversion of tropical rain forest is new, but in some regions deforestation is an old problem. Environmental impacts of deforestation on Java have been noted ...