Islands in the Rainforest : Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
ISBN-10
1598746359
ISBN-13
9781598746358
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint
Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2014
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Archaeology by period / regionAnthropologyTrees, wildflowers & plants
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'The culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana, this book demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlemtn and landscape management in tropical lowlands over millennia.
Stéphen Rostains 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 Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation alike. Rostains work demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the course of millennia.
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