A5057849331- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- African history and culture analysis
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest ecology and management
- Business and Management Studies
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- African history and culture studies
- Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Cassava research and cyanide
Stony Brook University
2010-2023
Great Basin College
2022
Instituto Florestal
2010
Washington University in St. Louis
2002-2003
Universidade Federal do Paraná
2002
Pennsylvania State University
1999
Because the genus Musa is not indigenous to Africa, remains of bananas in African archaeological or geological contexts indicate cultivation domesticated forms. During past 10 years, at least two claims have been made for discovery banana phytoliths middle late Holocene (Lejju et al. 2005, 2006, Mbida 2000, 2001, 2006). These finds met with universal acceptance (cf. Vansina 2003), part because application phytolith studies archaeology just beginning. In this paper, we examine current...
Significance Archaeologists have long sought monumental architecture’s origins among societies that were becoming populous, sedentary, and territorial. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, dispersed pastoralists pioneered construction. Eastern Africa’s earliest site was built by the region’s first herders ∼5,000–4,300 y ago as African Humid Period ended Lake Turkana’s shoreline receded. Lothagam North Pillar Site a massive communal cemetery with megalithic pillars, stone circles, cairns, mounded...
Using excavation and radiocarbon dating, the authors show that construction of megalithic pillar sites begins in eastern Africa by fifth millennium BP, is contemporary with earliest herding region. Mobile herders and/or hunter-gatherers built used these a dynamic context economic social change. We are more familiar monumentality as an adjunct cereal cultivators—but this study demonstrates relationship between early monuments, clear relevance to pre-cultivation very much earlier periods elsewhere.
AbstractMegalithic architecture is associated with spread of food production in many parts the world, but archaeological investigations have focused mainly on megalithic sites among early agrarian societies. Africa offers opportunity to examine construction—and related social phenomena—among mobile herders and hunter-gatherers no access domestic plants. In northwest Kenya, several "pillar sites" are known near Lake Turkana, few seen systematic research. This paper presents results survey...
Megalithic 'pillar sites' built by middle Holocene peoples of the Turkana Basin in northwestern Kenya provide eastern Africa's earliest known example monumental architecture. Radiometric dates place pillar site construction and use ~5000-4000 cal. BP. This social innovation occurred during a period marked environmental economic change: level Lake dropped dramatically, vast plains opened between lake neighbouring volcanic ridges herding was added to previous local subsistence repertoire...
During the late summers of 1991, 1992, and 1993, occurrence severity foliar symptoms on ozone-sensitive eastern hardwood species (black cherry (Prunusserotina Ehrh.), yellow-poplar (Liriodendrontulipifera L.), white ash (Fraxinusamericana L.)) in Shenandoah National Park, Va., relationships between observed cumulative ambient ozone exposures were determined. Three plots containing 30 trees each established adjacent to air quality monitoring stations located at three different elevations. The...
Archaeological investigations in Africa have revealed numerous structures and other architectural features whose purposes transcended daily domestic activities. Compared to prototypical instances of monumental architecture (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes), many public appear unusual economic circumstances (herding without farming) or amidst less extreme social differentiation. Although often smaller scale employing different structural elements, African constructions combine open...
Abstract Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana northwestern Kenya. At least six ‘pillar sites’ were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats introduced to the basin as lake was shrinking at end African Humid Period. Cultural changes this include new lithic ceramic technologies earliest monumentality Africa. Isolated human remains previously excavated from pillar sites east seemed...
Este artigo apresenta uma revisão bibliográfica sobre produtos não madeireiros visando traçar um panorama os seus principais conceitos, classificação, valoração e mercados. Constata-se a necessidade de análises mais aprofundadas importância sócio-econômica desse grupo produtos, criando assim, nova linha pesquisa florestal. Estas analises são fundamentais no caso brasileiro devido diversidade extensão do ecossistemas florestais existentes país. NON-WOOD PRODUCTS: CONCEPTS, CLASSIFICATION,...