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Islands in the rainforest : landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia / / Stephen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott



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Autore: Rostain Stephen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Islands in the rainforest : landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia / / Stephen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 980/.01
Soggetto topico: Indians of South America - Agriculture - French Guiana
Indians of South America - Land tenure - French Guiana
Raised field agriculture - French Guiana - History
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - French Guiana
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: EliottMichelle  
Note generali: First published in 2013 by Left Coast Press, Incorporated.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: "So Much Water!"; Chapter 1. Indigenous Agricultural Savoir Faire; Chapter 2. Humans and Environment: A Happy Marriage; Chapter 3. Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact; Chapter 4. A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest?; Chapter 5. "500 Years of Solitude"; Conclusion: "East of Eden"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island
Titolo autorizzato: Islands in the rainforest  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59874-635-9
1-315-42593-9
1-59874-636-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461974503321
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