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Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rostain, Stéphen
Otros Autores: Eliott, Michelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013.
Colección:New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4.
Temas:
Indians of South America > Agriculture > French Guiana.
Indians of South America > Land tenure > French Guiana.
Raised field agriculture > French Guiana > History.
Ethnoecology > French Guiana.
Culture sur buttes > Guyane française > Histoire.
Ethnoécologie > Guyane française.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Indians of South America > Agriculture
Indians of South America > Land tenure
Ethnoecology
Raised field agriculture
French Guiana
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: "So Much Water!"; Chapter 1. Indigenous Agricultural Savoir Faire; Chapter 2. Humans and Environment: A Happy Marriage; Chapter 3. Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact; Chapter 4. A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest?; Chapter 5. "500 Years of Solitude"; Conclusion: "East of Eden"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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