Imperfect Balance : Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas (Historical Ecology Series)

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Imperfect Balance : Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas (Historical Ecology Series)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 788 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780231111577
  • DDC分類 304.2

Full Description

We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, geology, conservation science, and resource management, this book unlocks the secret of how the Western Hemisphere's indigenous inhabitants influenced and transformed their natural environment. A rare combination of collaborators uncovers the changes that took place in North America, Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and Amazonia. Each section of the book has been comprehensively arranged so that a botanical description of the natural vegetation of the region is coupled with a set of case studies outlining local human influences. From modifications of vegetation, to changes in soil, wildlife, microclimate, hydrology, and the land surface itself, this collection addresses one of the great issues of our time: the human modification of the earth.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Foreword, by William Denevan 1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings, by David L. Lentz 2. Climate Changes in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture, by David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis 3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America, by Andrew M. Greller 4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas, by David L. Lentz 5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico, by Emily McClung de Tapia 6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning, by Charles S. Spencer 7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes, by Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach 8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests, by Charles Peters 9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley, by Gayle J. Fritz 10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment, by Suzanne Fish 11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes, by James Luteyn and Steven Churchill 12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape, by Clark L. Erickson 13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History, by Terence N. D'Altroy 14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America -- An Overview, by Douglas Daly and John Mitchell 15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat, by Anna C. Roosevelt Summary and Conclusions Index