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,...
Bruno, Maria C. A Morphological Approach to Documenting the Domestication of Chenopodium in the Andes. In Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel Bradley, Eve...
One of the major models for the rise of the Tiwanaku state has been trade between people and colonies outside of the Titicaca Basin. Another major model has been the increased intensity of rituals and feasting at the center to...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , El capítulo presenta de manera novedosa datos sobre los usos diversos y secuencia cronológica de plantas silvestres y cultivadas y, sobre la...
Roddick, Andrew P., Maria C. Bruno, and Christine A. Hastorf. Political Centers in Context: Depositional Histories at Formative Period Kala Uyuni, Bolivia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 36 (2014): 140-157....
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , Bruno, Maria C. Practice and History in the Transition to Food Production. Current Anthropology 50, no.5 (2009): 703-706....
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , The Lake Titicaca basin has long been recognised as an area of crop diversity in the Andes of South America (Beck and García 1991; Cardenas...
Bruno, Maria C., Nicole C. Couture, and Deborah E. Blom. Proyecto Qochamama?: Experiences, Perceptions, and Representations of Three Female Co-Directors at Tiwanaku, Bolivia. The SAA Archaeological Record 12, no. 2 (2012):...
Significance: Food production systems are critical components in the emergence of complex socioecological systems. In the Andes, societal complexity has often been related to the increasing production and consumption of maize...
One of the indigenous staple crops of Andean South America is the pseudocereal quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). While it was traditionally placed in its own family Chenopodiaceae, recent genetic work located it within the...
Bruno, Maria C., José M. Capriles, Christine A. Hasdorf, Sherilyn C. Fritz, D. Marie Weide, Alejandra I. Domic, and Paul A. Baker. "The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the...
Paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany, simply defined as the study of plant remains from archaeological sites, has become a central component of archaeological practice across the globe. Not only are its methods for the recovery...
Sayre, Matthew P., and Maria C. Bruno, eds. Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives From Paleoethnobotanical Data. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017., Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson...
The Late Formative period immediately precedes the emergence of Tiwanaku, one of the earliest South American states, yet it is one of the most poorly understood periods in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (Bolivia). In this...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , For more information on the published version, visit Revistas Bolivianas' Website....