Charles R Clement

Biographic Data

ID	450
NAME	Charles R Clement
GIVEN NAMES	Charles R
FAMILY NAME	Clement
SIGNATURE	CLEMENT C R
AFFILIATIONS	National Institute of Amazonian Research
ORCID	0000-0002-8421-1029
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	58
TOTAL CITATIONS	612
AUTHOR COUNT	58
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	12

Exploring the Semantic Bog of Definitions of Domestication
Open AccessCharles R ClementARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2026
The concept of domestication is important for the biological and social sciences but is framed within Western scientific paradigms that exclude other epistemologies. All human societies engage in multispecies relationships shaped by their own ontologies with intentional and unintentional human actions that often result in what Western scientists call domestication. This essay reviews some historical and contemporary definitions of domestication, …
Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication
Open AccessMariana Franco Cassino, Guilherme Henriques Soares et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025
Indigenous knowledges are being increasingly recognized as fundamental for environmental governance, ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. However, they tend to be recognized by Western science only when they converge with Western scientific knowledge, while ontological differences are generally treated as irrelevant or unreasonable beliefs. Given this scenario, embracing difference as a productive and fundamental aspect to truly un…
Upholding Ethical Accountability in Ethnobotany and Ethnobiology Research
Open AccessIna Vandebroek, J R Stepp et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2025Cited by: 6References: 19
Challenges for a Brazilian Amazonian bioeconomy based on forest foods
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Henrique Dos Santos Pereira et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2024
The creation of a forest bioeconomy based on the extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFP) is being recommended to create wealth from standing forests and halt deforestation in Amazonia. Current proposals do not recognize the limits of this system, nor the impacts of capitalism that drive NTFPs with elastic demand into monoculture plantations. We use a narrative review to revisit the history of these ideas and examine public policies. Among…
Insights into Growth, Ring Formation and Maximum Ages of Brazil Nut Trees ( Bertholletia excelsa ) Using 14 C Dating and Tree-Ring Analysis
Open AccessVictor Lery Caetano Andrade, Charles R Clement et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2024Cited by: 1References: 79
The Brazil Nut tree ( Bertholletia excelsa , Lecythidaceae) is a species of considerable historical, economic and ecological importance in South America. Radiocarbon dating indicates some individuals can live from hundreds to more than 1000 years, which means they have the potential to reconstruct deep time growth patterns and their relationship to anthropogenic management or climate change from pre-colonial to present times. However, age estimat…
Domesticação das paisagens amazônicas
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Maria Julia Ferreira et al.ARTICLEEstudos Avançados2024Cited by: 1References: 47
Na imaginação popular a Amazônia é um bioma natural, o que nega a existência e agência dos Povos Indígenas que chegaram há pelo menos 13 mil anos. Este ensaio demonstra que a Amazônia é uma teia de interações socioecológicas, como resultado da domesticação de paisagens e de populações de espécies. As práticas envolvidas na domesticação de paisagens são simples, embora baseadas em conhecimento profundo, e respeitam não humanos. Os Povos Indígenas …
Domestication of Amazonian landscapes
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Maria Julia Ferreira et al.ARTICLEEstudos Avançados2024Cited by: 1References: 47
In the popular imagination, Amazonia is a natural biome, which denies the existence and agency of Indigenous Peoples who arrived at least 13,000 years ago. This essay will demonstrate that Amazonia is a web of socio-ecological interactions, as a result of the domestication of landscapes and populations of species. The practices involved in the domestication of landscapes are simple, yet based on deep knowledge, and respectful of non-humans. Indig…
Amazonian Invertebrates in the Traditional diet of the Paiter Suruí in Southeastern Brazil
Open AccessAriel De Andrade Molina, Maria Julia Ferreira et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2023
A New Methodological Approach to Detect Microcenters and Regions of Maize Genetic Diversity in Different Areas of Lowland South America
Open AccessFlaviane Malaquias Costa, Nínive Carolinne De Aquino Silva et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2023References: 65
The Zoʻé perspective on what scientists call "forest management" and its implications for floristic diversity and biocultural conservation
Open AccessJuliano Franco De Moraes, Juliano Franco-Moraes et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023Cited by: 3
Indigenous perspectives on forest management are grounded in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), so that socioculture influences the ways Indigenous Peoples transform their landscapes. However, how socioculture structures Indigenous perspectives on forest management is unclear. Moreover, little is known about the influence of Indigenous landscape transformations on forest succession and floristic diversity. Here, we test hypotheses from biocu…
Adaptations of Pre-Columbian Manioc Storage Techniques as Strategies to Adapt to Extreme Climatic Events in Amazonian Floodplains
Open AccessJulia Vieira Da Cunha Ávila, Anderson Márcio Amaral et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2022
Archaeobotany of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples and Their Food Plants
Open AccessMariana Franco Cassino, Myrtle Pearl Shock et al.CHAPTERLocal Food Plants of Brazil2021
Adaptive Management Strategies of Local Communities in Two Amazonian Floodplain Ecosystems in the Face of Extreme Climate Events
Open AccessJulia Vieira Da Cunha Ávila, Charles R Clement et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2021
In Amazonia, changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events are occurring and expected to intensify, affecting food security with subsequent social and political problems. We conducted semi-structured interviews in communities of the mid-Solimões River basin (Amazonas, Brazil). Our questions were designed to construct seasonal calendars with residents ( ribeirinhos) to understand climatic patterns and changes in livelihood activ…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Morgan Schmidt, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin et al.OTHER2021
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…
Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Alejandro Casas et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2021Cited by: 30References: 77
The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative continues to be influential, even though it has been deconstructed by archaeologists and geneticists in its homeland. To further disentangle domestication from reliance on food production systems, such as agriculture, we revisit definitions of domestication and food…
Landscape Domestication and Archaeology
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Mariana Franco CassinoCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020
Spatial Distribution and Abundance of Acacia mangium on Indigenous Lands in the Serra da Lua Region, Roraima State, Brazil
Open AccessArlene Oliveira Souza, Maria Do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrigues Chaves et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2019
Pickersgill, Barbara
Open AccessCharles R ClementCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018
How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests
Open AccessCarolina Levis, Bernardo M Flores et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution2018
For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking near archaeological sites, yet we still lack a clear picture of how human management practices resulted in the domestication of Amazonian forests. The general view is that domesticated forests are recognizable by the presence of forest patches dominated by one or a few usef…
Landscape Domestication and Archaeology
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Mariana Franco CassinoCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018
The Influence of Soil Quality and Market Orientation on Manioc (Manihot esculenta) Varietal Choice by Smallholder Farmers along the Lower Tapajós River, Pará, Brazil
Open AccessRaquel Sousa Chaves, André Braga J Junqueira et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2018
Local ecological knowledge concerning the invasion of Amerindian lands in the northern Brazilian Amazon by Acacia mangium (Willd)
Open AccessArlene Oliveira Souza, Maria Do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrigues Chaves et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2018Cited by: 1References: 14
INTRODUCTION: Invasive plants can impact biodiversity as well as the lives of native human populations. Natural ecosystems represent sources of natural resources essential for the subsistence and socio-cultural continuity of these social groups. Approximately 30,000 ha of Acacia mangium were planted for commercial purposes in savanna areas surrounding indigenous lands in Roraima State, Brazil, at the end of the 1990s. We examined the local ecolog…
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Open AccessCarolina Levis, Flavia R C Costa et al.ARTICLEScience2017
Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…
Use and Management of Piquiá Suggest in situ Domestication along the Lower Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia1
Open AccessRubana Palhares Alves, Carolina Levis et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2016Cited by: 5References: 3
Crop domestication in the upper Madeira River basin
Open AccessCharles R Clement, Doriane Picanço Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio…2016Cited by: 20References: 47
Most native Amazonian crops were domesticated in the periphery of the basin. The upper Madeira River basin is an important part of this periphery where several important crops were domesticated and others are suspected to have been domesticated or arrived early. Some of these crops have been reasonably well studied, such as manioc, peanut, peach palm, coca and tobacco, while others are not as well known, such as the hot peppers Capsicum baccatum …