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Stéphen Rostain
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 38
Citations - 759
Stéphen Rostain is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earthworks & Land use. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 33 publications receiving 643 citations.
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Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia
Doyle McKey,Stéphen Rostain,José Iriarte,Bruno Glaser,Jago Jonathan Birk,Irene Holst,Delphine Renard +6 more
TL;DR: This work shows that pre-Columbian farmers of the Guianas coast constructed large raised-field complexes, growing on them crops including maize, manioc, and squash, and shows how sustainability of food-production systems can be enhanced by engineering into them fallows that maintain ecosystem services and biodiversity.
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Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas
José Iriarte,Mitchell J. Power,Stéphen Rostain,Francis E. Mayle,Huw T. Jones,Jennifer Watling,Bronwen S. Whitney,Doyle McKey +7 more
TL;DR: A high-resolution 2,150-y paleoecological record from a French Guianan coastal savanna is reported that forces reconsideration of how pre-Columbian savanna peoples practiced raised-field agriculture and how the CE impacted these societies and environments.
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Ecological engineers ahead of their time: The functioning of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and its potential contributions to sustainability today
Delphine Renard,José Iriarte,Jago Jonathan Birk,Stéphen Rostain,Bruno Glaser,Bruno Glaser,Doyle McKey +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine one set of techniques, pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture in wetlands of Mesoamerica and South America, and point out gaps in knowledge at three levels.
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Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
José Iriarte,Bruno Glaser,Jennifer Watling,Adam Wainwright,Jago Jonathan Birk,Delphine Renard,Stéphen Rostain,Doyle McKey +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, phytolith analyses from four pre-Columbian agricultural raised-field sites of the coastal savannahs of French Guiana and carbon isotope analyses from the first-named site were presented.
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Pre-Columbian Earthworks in Coastal Amazonia
TL;DR: Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Guianas coast carefully organized, managed and “anthropisized” their territory following a specific pattern.