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Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths

1 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
2 UCL - University College of London [London]
3 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 University of Groningen [Groningen]
5 Universidade Federal de São Paulo
6 UFOPA - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará [Santarém]
7 USP - Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo
8 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia = National Institute of Amazonian Research
9 ArqueoMaquina
10 UNIRIO - Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
11 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
12 University of Oxford
13 UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná [Curitiba, Brasil] = Federal University of Paraná [Curitiba, Brazil] = Université fédérale du Paraná [Curitiba, Brésil]
14 Embrapa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation = Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
15 UFPA - Federal University of Para - Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA [Belém, Brazil]
16 USW - University of South Wales
17 UC - Universidade de Coimbra = University of Coimbra [Portugal]
18 University of Wisconsin-Madison
19 UFF - Universidade Federal Fluminense [Rio de Janeiro]
20 Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden]
21 Embrapa Solos
22 University of Halle-Wittenberg
23 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
24 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
25 UNIBE - Universität Bern = University of Bern = Université de Berne
26 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
27 UM - Université de Montpellier
28 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
29 AASPE - Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements
30 BU - Bournemouth University [Poole]
Morgan Schmidt
Helena P Lima
Claide De
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Carlos Francisco Brazão
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Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Helena C dos Anjos
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Ademir Fontana
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Eduardo K Tamanaha
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Johannes Lehmann
S. Yoshi Maezumi
Leandro Matthews Cascon
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Francis E Mayle
Bruno Moraes
Gaspar Morcote-Ríos
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Carlos A Palheta Barbosa
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Marcos Pereira Magalhães
Fabiano N Pupim
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Marco F Raczka
Anne Rapp Py-Daniel
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Bruna Cigaran da Rocha
Leonor Rodrigues
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Stéphen Rostain
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Rodrigo Santana Macedo
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Myrtle P Shock
Tobias Sprafke
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Filippo Stampanoni Bassi
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Raoni Valle
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Pablo Vidal-Torrado
Ximena S Villagrán
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Jennifer Watling
Sadie L Weber
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Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira

Résumé

First described over 120 years ago in Brazil, Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are expanses of dark soil that are exceptionally fertile and contain large quantities of archaeological artefacts. The elevated fertility of the dark and often deep A horizon of ADEs is widely regarded as an outcome of pre-Columbian human influence 1 . Archaeological research provides clear evidence that their widespread formation in lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp human population growth that peaked towards 1000 BP 2-4 . In their recent paper Silva et al. 5 argue that the higher fertility of ADEs is principally a result of fluvial deposition and, as a corollary, that pre-Columbian peoples just made use of these locales, contributing little to their enhanced nutrient status.

Soil formation is inherently complex and often difficult to interpret, requiring a combination of geochemical data, stratigraphy, and dating. Although Silva et al. use this combination of methods to make their case 5 , their hypothesis, based on the analysis of a single ADE site and its immediate surroundings

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hal-04930529 , version 1 (05-02-2025)

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Umberto Lombardo, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, Morgan Schmidt, Hans Huisman, Helena P Lima, et al.. Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths. Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), pp.3444. ⟨10.1038/s41467-020-20184-2(2021)⟩. ⟨hal-04930529⟩
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