عنوان

An imperfect balance :

0231111568 (cloth : alk. paper)

0231111576 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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An imperfect balance :

[Book]

landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas /

David L. Lentz, editor

New York :

Columbia University Press,

2000

xx, 547 p. :

ill., maps ;

26 cm

The historical ecology series

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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Human ecology-- America-- History

Indians-- Antiquities

Indians-- Land tenure

Landscape changes-- America-- History

America, Antiquities

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Lentz, David Lewis

20010425124109.0

[Book]

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