Amazonia and the Anthropocene: What was the spatial extent and intensity of human landscape modification in the Amazon Basin at the end of prehistory?

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

(2015) Jan Zalasiewicz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Bamboo-dominated forests and pre-Columbian earthwork formations in south-western Amazonia

(2014) Crystal H. McMichael et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia

(2014) J. F. Carson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia

(2014) C. H. McMichael et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Used planet: A global history

(2013) E. C. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pre-Columbian landscape impact and agriculture in the Monumental Mound region of the Llanos de Moxos, lowland Bolivia

(2013) Bronwen S. Whitney et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions

(2013) Ruth Dickau et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

(2013) Erle C. Ellis et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Historical Human Footprint on Modern Tree Species Composition in the Purus-Madeira Interfluve, Central Amazonia

(2012) Carolina Levis et al.   PLoS One

Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia

(2012) C. H. McMichael et al.   SCIENCE

How pristine are tropical forests? An ecological perspective on the pre-Columbian human footprint in Amazonia and implications for contemporary conservation

(2011) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Neotropical human–landscape interactions, fire, and atmospheric CO2 during European conquest

(2011) R.J. Nevle et al.   HOLOCENE

Spatial and temporal scales of pre-Columbian disturbance associated with western Amazonian lakes

(2011) Crystal H. McMichael et al.   HOLOCENE

The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

(2011) W. Steffen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Fire Scars on Amazonian Trees: Exploring the Cryptic Fire History of the Ilha de Maracá

(2010) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOTROPICA

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE