The use of Niche Construction Theory in archaeological research demands that we establish empirically how human-constructed niches acted as legacies that shaped the selection pressures affecting past human populations. One potential approach is to examine whether human demography changed as a result of the continued use of landscapes enduringly transformed by past societies. This paper presents proxies for Amazonian population growth during the late Holocene and discusses their significance within the broader context of landscape legacies resulting from cumulative anthropic environmental alteration during pre-Columbian times.

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哥伦布前亚马孙时期的人类生态位建设和人口增长

在考古学研究中使用利基构建理论要求我们凭经验确定人为构建的壁how如何充当遗产，从而塑造影响过去人口的选择压力。一种潜在的方法是检查由于过去社会不断改变的景观的持续使用，人类人口统计学是否发生了变化。本文介绍了全新世晚期亚马逊河流域人口增长的代理人，并讨论了在哥伦布前时期累积的人类环境变化引起的更广泛的景观遗产中的意义。