Definition
Amazonian floodplain forests seasonally inundated annually by nutrient-rich whitewater rivers
what are várzea regions?
Culitivated by the Maya, produces 2,200 lbs of edible seeds, and tolerant of many soil types
What is Ramon or breadnut tree?
The type of farming done by the Maya that is still used today and used walls to trap soil.
What is hill terracing
biggest reason for population decline in hunter-gatherer groups.
What is disease?
The practice of crop cultivation within a forest.
what is agroforestry?
type of narcotic that is grown in high elevations. (hint: popular soda)
What is cocaine?
The type of farming common for the Maya done in marshlands or swamps?
What is raised fields
The study of how indigenous people have learned how to use vegatation for different purposes.
What is ethnobotany?
Done to trees that cannot be cut down for slash-and-burn agriculture.
What is girdled tree?
This plant is used as a poison and often added to the tips of arrows and darts.
What is curare?
Type of agriculture that requires burning of vegatation to gain nutrients and minerals in the soil.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
The person in the tribe that holds the knowledge for medicinal healing and plants.
what is a shaman?
What is the storage container that the Mayan used and stored lots of breadnut tree seeds in? (can be plural or singular)
What is chultunob (chultún)?
Type of hallucinogen that is gotten from the inner bark of trees.
what is virola?
The conservation of a natural ecosystem to one containing only selected, harvestable species.
What is agriculture?
Problem with hunter-gatherer groups that was sloved through tribal raids
What is inbreeding?