Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology : : Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands /

Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology : : Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands / / Clark Erickson, William Balée.

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This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environmen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Balée, William,
Erickson, Clark,
MitwirkendeR:
Balick, Michael,
Balée, William,
Brondízio, Eduardo S.,
Campbell, David G.,
Campo-Raeder, Constanza,
Clement, Charles R.,
Cormier, Loretta A.,
Denevan, William M.,
Erickson, Clark L.,
Erickson, Clark,
Ford, Anabel,
Graham, Elizabeth,
Hastorf, Christine A.,
Heckenberger, Michael,
Lake, Jeffrey K.,
Lowell, Karen S.,
Neves, Eduardo G.,
Petersen, James B.,
Stahl, Peter W.,
Townesmith, Andrew,
Walker, Jay,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Historical Ecology Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 27 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology
  • PART 1
  • 1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén
  • 2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta
  • 3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru
  • 4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics
  • PART 2
  • 5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia
  • 6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia
  • 7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia
  • 8. The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon
  • 9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia
  • 10. History, Ecology, and Alterity
  • 11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer
  • 12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future
  • Index

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