An imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2000.
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Series: | Historical ecology series.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.