Bruno, Maria C. Beyond Raised Fields: Exploring Farming Practices and Processes of Agricultural Change in the Ancient Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. American Anthropologist 116, no. 1 (2014): 130-145....
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , In this article, we present the results of an analysis of carbonized plant remains from the site of Loma Salvatierra, in the Llanos de Moxos...
El surgimiento de la agricultura en la cuenca sur del lago Titicaca fue esencial para el desarrollo de las primeras sociedades complejas. Se presenta un estudio de las semillas de Chenopodium del sitio Chiripa, Bolivia, el...
This paper revives a fascinating debate: did a drought start before, during, or after the collapse of the Andean polity of Tiwanaku? Here we present an alternate age model that highlights the real issue: the data from Lake...
Few if any of us working with archaeological plant remains 30 years ago dreamed that a chenopod could by now have achieved Supergrain status in the popular food world. Back then, North American chenopod was considered a lowly...
Langlie, BrieAnna S., Christine A. Hastorf, Maria C. Bruno, Marc Bermann, Renee M. Bonzani, and William Castellón Condarco. "Diversity in Andean Chenopodium Domestication: Describing a New Morphological Type from La Barca,...
Planella, María Teresa, María Laura López, and Maria Christina Bruno. Domestication and Prehistoric Distribution. In State of the Art Report on Quinoa Around the World in 2013, edited by Didier Bazile, Daniel Bertero, and...
Le presencia del género Chenopodium es frecuente en los sitios arqueológicos de la región andina. La correcta identificación condujo a su interpretación como alimento básico desde el periodo Arcaico hasta la conquista Inka,...
Ayrampu Qontu, named after a nearby hill, or qontu in Aymara, where a particular cactus called ayrampu grows, is the westernmost sector of the Kala Uyuni site. This area was selected for excavation based on the high density of...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , Bruno, Maria C. "Farmers' Experience and Knowledge: Utilizing Soil Diversity to Mitigate Rainfall Variability on the Taraco Peninsula,...
Introduction: The Valuation of Flavorful Plants: Staple crops have long been a focus of archaeobotanical studies of fields and gardens worldwide. For example, abundant studies present the domestication, dissemination,...
As archaeobotanists we query the archaeological plant record to understand ancient wild plant gathering, agriculture, and foodways: the quintessential components of human interactions with the plant world. When working with...
Marsh, Erik J., Maria C. Bruno, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul Baker, José M. Capriles, and Christine A. Hastorf. "IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records...
Moore, Katherine, Maria Bruno, José M. Capriles, and Christine Hastorf. Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. In "Integrating...
Bruno, Maria C. Macrorestos botánicos de la Loma Mendoza. In Loma Mendoza: las excavaciones del Instituto Arqueológico Alemán y de la Direccíon Nacional de Arqueología en los años 1999-2002, edited by Heiko Prumers,...