Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
Biographic Data
| ID | 445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Arroyo-Kalin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Arroyo-Kalin |
| SIGNATURE | ARROYO-KALIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9024-8100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
French, Charles A. I.
Amazonian Dark Earths
Anthropogenic Sediments and Soils
La arqueología del río Napo
La arqueología del río Napo fue inicialmente conocida a través de los trabajos pioneros de Clifford Evans y Betty Meggers en territorio ecuatoriano. Estas investigaciones permitieron la formulación de una secuencia cerámica que aún continúa siendo la columna vertebral de nuestra comprensión arqueológica de la región. Sin embargo, nuevos datos arqueológicos han mejorado la reconstrucción del proceso de ocupación humana de la región en la época pre…
Entre La Pedrera y Araracuara
La arqueología del medio río Caquetá, en la Amazonía colombiana, se conoció recién en los 1970s a partir de los resultados de proyectos de investigación pioneros en Araracuara y La Pedrera. Estas investigaciones identificaron secuencias cerámicas diferentes en cada localidad, documentaron una gran cantidad de petroglifos y, por primera vez, registraron suelos antrópicos negros y pardos en el Noroeste Amazónico. Investigaciones posteriores enfatiz…
Civilisation and Human Niche Construction
This short paper introduces the special section "Civilisation and the Construction of the Human Niche", organised by the ‘Domestication, Niche Construction and the Anthropocene’ research network at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Widespread population decline in South America correlates with mid-Holocene climate change
Quantifying the impacts of climate change on prehistoric demography is crucial for understanding the adaptive pathways taken by human populations. Archaeologists across South America have pointed to patterns of regional abandonment during the Middle Holocene (8200 to 4200 cal BP) as evidence of sensitivity to shifts in hydroclimate over this period. We develop a unified approach to investigate demography and climate in South America and aim to cl…
Human Niche Construction and Population Growth in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
The use of Niche Construction Theory in archaeological research demands that we establish empirically how human-constructed niches acted as legacies that shaped the selection pressures affecting past human populations. One potential approach is to examine whether human demography changed as a result of the continued use of landscapes enduringly transformed by past societies. This paper presents proxies for Amazonian population growth during the l…
The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Past and Future Earth
Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environme…
Landscaping, Landscape Legacies, and Landesque Capital in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
How do human and landscape histories reciprocally affect each other? Can we distinguish between deliberate and unintended anthropic transformations of the landscape? This chapter summarizes evidence from pre-Columbian Amazonia in order to discuss the relation between three dimensions of anthropic landscape transformations: landscaping, landscape legacies, and landesque capital. Conflation between these three categories can lead to theoretical roa…
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and how many times domestication took place have been of primary interest within a wide range of academic disciplines. Within the last two decades, the advent of new archaeological and genetic techniques has revolutionized our understanding of the pattern and process of …
Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record
Significance Agriculture was a transformative development in the history of human societies and natural environments and drove the evolution of new domesticated species. Crop plants are the predominant domesticated species in most agricultural systems and are an essential component in all the food production systems that underpinned the development of urban societies. Archaeological plant remains provide a range of insights into the processes by …
Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian Dark Earths in Western Amazonia
Western Amazonia is a large region that includes a global biodiversity hotspot (the Yasuni National Park) and which still retains large tracts of intact native rainforest. Along the Napo River (Fig. 1), which originates in the Ecuadorian eastern lowlands and discharges into the Peruvian reaches of the Amazon River, current human settlement is uneven and highly dispersed. In Ecuador, towns are associated with the encroachment of oil extraction act…
Stéphen Rostain. Islands in the rainforest. Landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia. 277 pages, 70 b&w illustrations. 2013. Walnut Creek (CA)
Stéphen Rostain. Islands in the rainforest. Landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia. 277 pages, 70 b&w illustrations. 2013. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast; 978-1-59874-634-1 hardback $89. - Volume 87 Issue 337
Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests
Arqueología de la Punta Santa Ana
Presentamos los resultados obtenidos durante una investigacin orientada a la identificacin de yacimientos y anlisis de sus evidencias para reconstruir secuencias de ocupacin de cazadores-recolectores marinos en diferentes puntos especficos de Patagonia Meridional. En este trabajo abordamos la caracterizacin de tres yacimientos arqueolgicos de la localidad de Punta Santa Ana, estrecho de Magallanes. Los conjuntos estudiados corresponden a campamen…
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Slash-burn-and-churn
The Amazonian Formative
The emergence of sedentism and agriculture in Amazonia continues to sit uncomfortably within accounts of South American pre-Columbian history. This is partially because deep-seated models were formulated when only ceramic evidence was known, partly because newer data continue to defy simple explanations, and partially because many discussions continue to ignore evidence of pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape transformations. This paper presents…
How old is Luzia? Luminescence dating and stratigraphic integrity at Lapa Vermelha, Lagoa Santa, Brazil
During an excavation in the 1970s, a disarticulated female human skeleton, later nicknamed Luzia, was discovered at 12m depth at Lapa Vermelha rockshelter in central Brazil. Radiocarbon dating of associated charcoal suggested an age of 11.4‐16.4 ka for the skeleton. The scattering of the skeletal parts, some uncertainty about the exact provenience of the skeleton, and evidence of pervasive insect turbation in the archaeological layers have raised…
Trypillia mega-sites of the Ukraine
Slash-burn-and-churn
Lapa das boleiras rockshelter
Landscaping, Landscape Legacies, and Landesque Capital in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
How do human and landscape histories reciprocally affect each other? Can we distinguish between deliberate and unintended anthropic transformations of the landscape? This chapter summarizes evidence from pre-Columbian Amazonia in order to discuss the relation between three dimensions of anthropic landscape transformations: landscaping, landscape legacies, and landesque capital. Conflation between these three categories can lead to theoretical roa…
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
How old is Luzia? Luminescence dating and stratigraphic integrity at Lapa Vermelha, Lagoa Santa, Brazil
During an excavation in the 1970s, a disarticulated female human skeleton, later nicknamed Luzia, was discovered at 12m depth at Lapa Vermelha rockshelter in central Brazil. Radiocarbon dating of associated charcoal suggested an age of 11.4‐16.4 ka for the skeleton. The scattering of the skeletal parts, some uncertainty about the exact provenience of the skeleton, and evidence of pervasive insect turbation in the archaeological layers have raised…
Trypillia mega-sites of the Ukraine
Nuevas Evidencias De Cazadores Recolectores Terrestres Del Holoceno Medio Y Tardío en Tierra Del Fuego
Los hallazgos del sitio Cabo Monmouth 20 (CM20) representan nueva evidencia sobre ocupaciones del Holoceno medio (ca. 5.000 aos AP) y tardo, en el norte de Tierra del Fuego. Se evala la informacin recopilada en excavaciones de sondeo, sintetizando los datos estratigrficos y contextuales, adems de presentar un nuevo fechado realizado sobre material malacolgico de origen antrpico, con una datacin de 5.520 + 50 aos
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Anthropogenic Dark Earths of the Central Amazon Region
Steps Towards an Ecology of Landscape
Lapa das boleiras rockshelter
Nuevas Evidencias De Cazadores Recolectores Terrestres Del Holoceno Medio Y Tardío en Tierra Del Fuego
Los hallazgos del sitio Cabo Monmouth 20 (CM20) representan nueva evidencia sobre ocupaciones del Holoceno medio (ca. 5.000 aos AP) y tardo, en el norte de Tierra del Fuego. Se evala la informacin recopilada en excavaciones de sondeo, sintetizando los datos estratigrficos y contextuales, adems de presentar un nuevo fechado realizado sobre material malacolgico de origen antrpico, con una datacin de 5.520 + 50 aos
The Amazonian Formative
The emergence of sedentism and agriculture in Amazonia continues to sit uncomfortably within accounts of South American pre-Columbian history. This is partially because deep-seated models were formulated when only ceramic evidence was known, partly because newer data continue to defy simple explanations, and partially because many discussions continue to ignore evidence of pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape transformations. This paper presents…
How old is Luzia? Luminescence dating and stratigraphic integrity at Lapa Vermelha, Lagoa Santa, Brazil
During an excavation in the 1970s, a disarticulated female human skeleton, later nicknamed Luzia, was discovered at 12m depth at Lapa Vermelha rockshelter in central Brazil. Radiocarbon dating of associated charcoal suggested an age of 11.4‐16.4 ka for the skeleton. The scattering of the skeletal parts, some uncertainty about the exact provenience of the skeleton, and evidence of pervasive insect turbation in the archaeological layers have raised…
Slash-burn-and-churn
Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests
Arqueología de la Punta Santa Ana
Presentamos los resultados obtenidos durante una investigacin orientada a la identificacin de yacimientos y anlisis de sus evidencias para reconstruir secuencias de ocupacin de cazadores-recolectores marinos en diferentes puntos especficos de Patagonia Meridional. En este trabajo abordamos la caracterizacin de tres yacimientos arqueolgicos de la localidad de Punta Santa Ana, estrecho de Magallanes. Los conjuntos estudiados corresponden a campamen…
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Stéphen Rostain. Islands in the rainforest. Landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia. 277 pages, 70 b&w illustrations. 2013. Walnut Creek (CA)
Stéphen Rostain. Islands in the rainforest. Landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia. 277 pages, 70 b&w illustrations. 2013. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast; 978-1-59874-634-1 hardback $89. - Volume 87 Issue 337
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and how many times domestication took place have been of primary interest within a wide range of academic disciplines. Within the last two decades, the advent of new archaeological and genetic techniques has revolutionized our understanding of the pattern and process of …
Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record
Significance Agriculture was a transformative development in the history of human societies and natural environments and drove the evolution of new domesticated species. Crop plants are the predominant domesticated species in most agricultural systems and are an essential component in all the food production systems that underpinned the development of urban societies. Archaeological plant remains provide a range of insights into the processes by …
Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian Dark Earths in Western Amazonia
Western Amazonia is a large region that includes a global biodiversity hotspot (the Yasuni National Park) and which still retains large tracts of intact native rainforest. Along the Napo River (Fig. 1), which originates in the Ecuadorian eastern lowlands and discharges into the Peruvian reaches of the Amazon River, current human settlement is uneven and highly dispersed. In Ecuador, towns are associated with the encroachment of oil extraction act…
Past and Future Earth
Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environme…
Landscaping, Landscape Legacies, and Landesque Capital in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
How do human and landscape histories reciprocally affect each other? Can we distinguish between deliberate and unintended anthropic transformations of the landscape? This chapter summarizes evidence from pre-Columbian Amazonia in order to discuss the relation between three dimensions of anthropic landscape transformations: landscaping, landscape legacies, and landesque capital. Conflation between these three categories can lead to theoretical roa…
Human Niche Construction and Population Growth in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
The use of Niche Construction Theory in archaeological research demands that we establish empirically how human-constructed niches acted as legacies that shaped the selection pressures affecting past human populations. One potential approach is to examine whether human demography changed as a result of the continued use of landscapes enduringly transformed by past societies. This paper presents proxies for Amazonian population growth during the l…
The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Civilisation and Human Niche Construction
This short paper introduces the special section "Civilisation and the Construction of the Human Niche", organised by the ‘Domestication, Niche Construction and the Anthropocene’ research network at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Widespread population decline in South America correlates with mid-Holocene climate change
Quantifying the impacts of climate change on prehistoric demography is crucial for understanding the adaptive pathways taken by human populations. Archaeologists across South America have pointed to patterns of regional abandonment during the Middle Holocene (8200 to 4200 cal BP) as evidence of sensitivity to shifts in hydroclimate over this period. We develop a unified approach to investigate demography and climate in South America and aim to cl…
La arqueología del río Napo
La arqueología del río Napo fue inicialmente conocida a través de los trabajos pioneros de Clifford Evans y Betty Meggers en territorio ecuatoriano. Estas investigaciones permitieron la formulación de una secuencia cerámica que aún continúa siendo la columna vertebral de nuestra comprensión arqueológica de la región. Sin embargo, nuevos datos arqueológicos han mejorado la reconstrucción del proceso de ocupación humana de la región en la época pre…
Entre La Pedrera y Araracuara
La arqueología del medio río Caquetá, en la Amazonía colombiana, se conoció recién en los 1970s a partir de los resultados de proyectos de investigación pioneros en Araracuara y La Pedrera. Estas investigaciones identificaron secuencias cerámicas diferentes en cada localidad, documentaron una gran cantidad de petroglifos y, por primera vez, registraron suelos antrópicos negros y pardos en el Noroeste Amazónico. Investigaciones posteriores enfatiz…
French, Charles A. I.
Amazonian Dark Earths
Geography (28 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (17 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Biology (12 works) · Amazon rainforest (11 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Geology (9 works) · History (9 works)