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Time and complexity in historical ecology : studies in the neotropical lowlands /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology Tulane University
Otros Autores: Balée, William L., 1954-, Erickson, Clark L.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Historical ecology series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Time, complexity, and historical ecology / William Balee / Clark L. Erickson
  • 1. feral forests of the Eastern Peten / Karen S. Lowell / Anabel Ford / David G. Campbell / Jay Walker / Jeffrey K. Lake / Constanza Ocampo-Raeder / Andrew Townesmith / Michael Balick
  • 2. neotropical framework for Terra Preta / Elizabeth Graham
  • 3. Domesticated food and society in early coastal Peru / Christine A. Hastorf
  • 4. Microvertebrate synecology and anthropogenic footprints in the forested neotropics / Peter W. Stahl
  • 5. Pre-European forest cultivation in Amazonia / William M. Denevan
  • 6. Fruit trees and the transition to food production in Amazonia / Charles R. Clement
  • 7. historical ecology of a complex landscape in Bolivia / Clark L. Erickson / William Balee
  • 8. domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon / Clark L. Erickson
  • 9. Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia / Eduardo G. Neves / James B. Petersen
  • 10. History, ecology, and alterity : visualizing polity in ancient Amazonia / Michael Heckenberger
  • 11. Between the ship and the bulldozer : historical ecology of Guaja subsistence, sociality, and symbolism after 1500 / Loretta A. Cormier.