The Paleobiolinguistics of Domesticated Chili Pepper (Capsicum spp)

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ID7284904
AutoresCecil H Brown (Northern Illinois University), Charles R Clement (0000-0002-8421-1029, National Institute of Amazonian Research), P Epps (0000-0002-7429-7885, The University of Texas at Austin), Eike Luedeling (0000-0002-7316-3631, World Agroforestry Centre), Søren Wichmann (0000-0002-3257-3087, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Ano2013
Volume4
Páginas1-11
Data de publicação2013-08-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnobiology Letters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2159-8126 • E-ISSN: 2159-8126
EditoraSociety of Ethnobiology (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14237/ebl.4.2013.2
OpenAlexW1989299509
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas9

Paleobiolinguistics employs the comparative method of historical linguistics to reconstruct the biodiversity known to human groups of the remote, unrecorded past. Comparison of words for biological species from languages of the same language family facilitates reconstruction of the biological vocabulary of the family's ancient proto-language. This study uses paleobiolinguistics to establish where and when chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) developed significance for different prehistoric Native American groups. This entails mapping in both time and geographic space proto-languages for which words for chili pepper reconstruct. Maps show the broad distribution of Capsicum through Mesoamerica and South America mirroring its likely independent domestication in these regions. Proto-language dates indicate that human interest in chili pepper had developed in most of Latin America at least a millennium before a village-farming way of life became widespread. © 2013 Society of Ethnobiology

Archaeology · Biology · Chili pepper · Domestication · Geography · Indigenous · Mesoamerica · Mirroring · Pepper · Prehistory · Sociology · Banana Cultivation and Research · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques · Ecology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation · Horticulture · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management