landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas /
نام نخستين پديدآور
David L. Lentz, editor
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
New York :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Columbia University Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2000
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xx, 547 p. :
ساير جزييات
ill., maps ;
ابعاد
26 cm
فروست
عنوان فروست
The historical ecology series
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
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