Welcome to the repository for our research project on pollen-based evidence of food plants around the world and human presence in fossil records in Latin America. This project focuses on the identification and analysis of anthopogenic pollen indicators (i.e. human indicators) in pollen data, aiming to reconstruct aspects of human history.
The data folder contains the dataset used for the creating of the different figures of the publication (Flantua & Hooghiemstra, 2023). The R folder holds R scripts for visualization using ggplot2. The plots folder contains generated visualizations.
Figure 2: Distribution of human indicators in fossil pollen records in Latin America. Figure 3. Number of times each human indicator was identified in references in Latin America on (fossil) pollen records. Figure 4. Locations of the references with human indices.
Reference: Suzette G.A.Flantua & Henry Hooghiemstra (2023). Anthropogenic pollen indicators: global food plants and Latin American human indicators in the pollen record. Nature - Scientific data.