LEADER 05199nam 22007694a 450 001 9910777638403321 005 20210602214839.0 010 $a0-231-50961-8 024 7 $a10.7312/bale13562 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465601 035 $a(EBL)909497 035 $a(OCoLC)76705658 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274208 035 $a(PQKB)11640403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909497 035 $a(DE-B1597)458627 035 $a(OCoLC)979751595 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909497 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183588 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL811679 035 $a(PPN)251125912 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465601 100 $a20050526d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---uuu|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTime and complexity in historical ecology$b[electronic resource] $estudies in the neotropical lowlands /$fedited by William Bale?e and Clark L. Erickson 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (777 p.) 225 1 $aThe historical ecology series 300 $aPapers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002. 311 0 $a0-231-13562-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface /$rBalée, William / Erickson, Clark --$tContributors --$tTime, Complexity, and Historical Ecology /$rBalée, William / Erickson, Clark L. --$tPART 1 --$t1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén /$rCampbell, David G. / Ford, Anabel / Lowell, Karen S. / Walker, Jay / Lake, Jeffrey K. / Campo-Raeder, Constanza / Townesmith, Andrew / Balick, Michael --$t2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta /$rGraham, Elizabeth --$t3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru /$rHastorf, Christine A. --$t4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics /$rStahl, Peter W. --$tPART 2 --$t5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia /$rDenevan, William M. --$t6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia /$rClement, Charles R. --$t7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia /$rErickson, Clark L. / Balée, William --$t8. The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon /$rErickson, Clark L. --$t9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia /$rNeves, Eduardo G. / Petersen, James B. --$t10. History, Ecology, and Alterity /$rHeckenberger, Michael --$t11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer /$rCormier, Loretta A. --$t12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future /$rBrondízio, Eduardo S. --$tIndex 330 $aThis collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment. Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and languages. Treating the landscape like a text, these researchers decipher patterns and meaning in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other regions in the neotropics. They show how local peoples have changed the landscape over time to fit their needs by managing and modifying species diversity, enhancing landscape heterogeneity, and controlling ecological disturbance. In turn, the environment itself becomes a form of architecture rich with historical and archaeological significance. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology explores thousands of years of ecological history while also addressing important contemporary issues, such as biodiversity and genetic variation and change. Engagingly written and expertly researched, this book introduces and exemplifies a unique method for better understanding the link between humans and the biosphere. 410 0$aHistorical ecology series. 606 $aHuman ecology$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aHuman ecology$zTropics$vCongresses 606 $aRain forest ecology$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aEthnobiology$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aAgriculture$zTropics$vCongresses 606 $aLand use$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aLandscape changes$zLatin America$vCongresses 615 0$aHuman ecology 615 0$aHuman ecology 615 0$aRain forest ecology 615 0$aEthnobiology 615 0$aAgriculture 615 0$aLand use 615 0$aLandscape changes 676 $a304.2/098 700 $aBalée$b William, $0847182 701 $aBale?e$b William L.$f1954-$01513231 701 $aErickson$b Clark L$01563257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777638403321 996 $aTime and complexity in historical ecology$93831502 997 $aUNINA