Open AccessThe Paleobiolinguistics of Domesticated Manioc (Manihot esculenta)
Author(s) -
Cecil H. Brown,
Charles R. Clement,
Patience Epps,
Eike Luedeling,
Søren Wichmann
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ethnobiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2159-8126
DOI - 10.14237/ebl.4.2013.5
Subject(s) - manihot esculenta , domestication , prehistory , manihot , geography , agriculture , agroforestry , biology , ecology , botany , archaeology
Paleobiolinguistics is used to identify on maps where and when manioc (Manihot esculenta) developed importance for different prehistoric groups of Native Americans. This information indicates, among other things, that significant interest in manioc developed at least a millennium before a village-farming way of life became widespread in the New World.