An imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas /

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We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lentz, David L. (David Lewis), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.
Colección:Historical ecology series.
Temas:
Human ecology > America > History.
Landscape changes > America > History.
Indians > Land tenure.
Indians > Antiquities.
Écologie humaine > Amérique > Histoire.
Paysages > Modifications > Amérique > Histoire.
Peuples autochtones > Terres.
Peuples autochtones > Antiquités.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > General.
Antiquities.
Human ecology.
Landscape changes.
Landschappen.
Landgebruik.
Indianen.
Opgravingen.
America > Antiquities.
Amérique > Antiquités.
America.
Amerika.
Geography and Earth Sciences
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: definitions and conceptual underpinnings / David L. Lentz
  • Climate change in the Northern American tropics and subtropics since the last ice age: implications for environment and culture / David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis
  • Vegetation in the floristic regions of North and Central America / Andrew M. Greller
  • Anthropocentric food webs in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz
  • Prehispanic agricultural systems in the basin of Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia
  • Prehispanic water management and agricultural intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: implications for contemporary ecological planning / Charles S. Spencer
  • Stability and instability in prehispanic Maya landscapes / Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach
  • Precolumbian silviculture and indigenous management of neotropical forests / Charles M. Peters
  • Native farming systems and ecosystems in the Mississippi River valley / Gayle J. Fritz
  • Hohokam impacts on Sonoran Desert environment / Suzanne K. Fish
  • Vegetation of the tropical Andes: an overview / James L. Luteyn and Steven P. Churchill
  • The Lake Titicaca Basin: a Precolumbian built landscape / Clark L. Erickson
  • Andean land use at the cusp of history / Terence N. D'Altroy
  • Lowland vegetation of tropical South America: an overview / Douglas C. Daly and John D. Mitchell
  • The lower Amazon: a dynamic human habitat / Anna C. Roosevelt.

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