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.