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An imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00662284 | Recorded BooksSeries: Historical ecology seriesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 547 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231505515
  • 9780231505512
  • 0231111568
  • 9780231111560
  • 0231111576
  • 9780231111577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperfect balance.DDC classification:
  • 304.2/097 21
LOC classification:
  • GF500 .A5 2000eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, geology, conservation science, and resource management, this book unlocks the secret of how the Western Hemisphere's indigenous inhabitants influenced and transformed their natural environment.<BR.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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 wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, geology, conservation science, and resource management, this book unlocks the secret of how the Western Hemisphere's indigenous inhabitants influenced and transformed their natural environment.<BR.

In English.

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