The study of collector variability in the transition to sedentary food producers in northern Colombia |
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Authors: | Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Archaeology, 2500 University Drive NW, University of Calgary, T2N 1N4 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Abstract: | Human adaptation to the tropics by populations of collectors has been a longtanding issue of debate, especially with regard to the role that collectors may have played in pathways toward sedentism and food production. In this essay, I examine significant differences in strategies developed for estuarine environments versus the inland environments of the transitional savannas of northern Colombia to analyze how these two adaptations articulate with the processes which led toward sedentism and food production in neotropical northern Colombia. Contrary to the received wisdom, I argue that the exploitation of rich estuarine environments is not necessarily a prelude to food production; seed exploitation early in the sixth millennium B.P. in the northern Colombian transitional savanna zone provides a second and arguably more probable model. |
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Keywords: | Colombia shell middens early pottery estuary savanna |
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