TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balée,William L.
AU  - Erickson,Clark L.
ED  - Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology
TI  - Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the neotropical lowlands 
T2  - The historical ecology series
SN  - 0231509618
AV  - GF514 .S96 2002eb
U1  - 304.2/098 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Rain forest ecology
KW  - Ethnobiology
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Land use
KW  - Landscape changes
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Régions tropicales
KW  - Écologie des forêts pluviales
KW  - Ethnobiologie
KW  - Utilisation du sol
KW  - Paysages
KW  - Modifications
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Ecology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; Time, complexity, and historical ecology; William Balee; Clark L. Erickson --; 1; feral forests of the Eastern Peten; Karen S. Lowell; Anabel Ford; David G. Campbell; Jay Walker; Jeffrey K. Lake; Constanza Ocampo-Raeder; Andrew Townesmith; Michael Balick --; 2; neotropical framework for Terra Preta; Elizabeth Graham --; 3; Domesticated food and society in early coastal Peru; Christine A. Hastorf --; 4; Microvertebrate synecology and anthropogenic footprints in the forested neotropics; Peter W. Stahl --; 5; Pre-European forest cultivation in Amazonia; William M. Denevan --; 6; Fruit trees and the transition to food production in Amazonia; Charles R. Clement --; 7; historical ecology of a complex landscape in Bolivia; Clark L. Erickson; William Balee --; 8; domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon; Clark L. Erickson --; 9; Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia; Eduardo G. Neves; James B. Petersen --; 10; History, ecology, and alterity : visualizing polity in ancient Amazonia; Michael Heckenberger --; 11; Between the ship and the bulldozer : historical ecology of Guaja subsistence, sociality, and symbolism after 1500; Loretta A. Cormier
N2  - This 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 neotropi
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