San Jacinto 1: A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia

Commenting on earlier reports by the authors, Piperno & Pearsall (1998, in The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neo-tropics: 285) were sceptical of their claim for an exclusively wild grass-seed and mollusc processing site; they point out that 'food production win underway in Colombia...

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Published inAntiquity Vol. 80; no. 309; pp. 739 - 741
Main Author Oliver, José R
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.09.2006
Subjects
Agricultural production
Archaeology
Ceramics
Colombia
Ecology
Historical analysis
Meat processing
Nonfiction
South America
Venezuela
Ecuador
Colombia
United Kingdom > UK
Panama
Guyana
Brazil
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Summary:Commenting on earlier reports by the authors, Piperno & Pearsall (1998, in The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neo-tropics: 285) were sceptical of their claim for an exclusively wild grass-seed and mollusc processing site; they point out that 'food production win underway in Colombia [and Panama] long before S[an] J [acinto]-1' came into existence, judging it a 'very expensive strategy , 'unlikely to have been the sole subsistence focus, when less costly methods of food procurement were almost certainly available'.
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SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Review-1
ISBN:9780817351847
0817351841
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X0009428X