Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America
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Beschreibung
This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity. This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the Pleistocene to Holocene, but the nature and scale of these interactions are matters of debate and their legacy to modern lowland environments is not fully understood.
This book brings together works from distinct disciplines, including theoretical and methodological approaches on single case studies or broad regional syntheses, with no chronological constraint. The editors aim to generate a novel contribution reporting the most recent and ground-breaking research on human interactions with past environments and resources in lowland South America, from pre-Columbian to Colonial times. The volume also discusses the legacy of these past interactions and their potential contribution to informing current conservationand development agendas, providing examples of how archaeology and paleoecology can fill gaps in conservation and developmental policy. This volume will be of interest to students, archaeologists, and readers of Latin American studies.
This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity. This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the Pleistocene to Holocene, but the nature and scale of these interactions are matters of debate and their legacy to modern lowland environments is not fully understood.
This book brings together works from distinct disciplines, including theoretical and methodological approaches on single case studies or broad regional syntheses, with no chronological constraint. The editors aim to generate a novel contribution reporting the most recent and ground-breaking research on human interactions with past environments and resources in lowland South America, from pre-Columbian to Colonial times. The volume also discusses the legacy of these past interactions and their potential contribution to informing current conservationand development agendas, providing examples of how archaeology and paleoecology can fill gaps in conservation and developmental policy. This volume will be of interest to students, archaeologists, and readers of Latin American studies.
Scrutinizes human transformation of South American landscapes and environments in historical times Offers insight into local indigenous knowledge Sheds light on conservation and restoration ecology in tropical and subtropical South America
Autor*in
André Carlo Colonese
Themen in »Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America«
Historical ecology in the Americas Lowland South America Restoration ecology in South America Archaeology and conservation biology in South America Archaeology and symbolism Archaeology in the Baixo Rio Juruá region Early human transformation of forest environments Ceramic technology in the Americas Traditional Knowledge and biodiversity in the Amazon Pre-Columbian Hornos de pozo Fish and fisheries in lowland areas of Merin Lagoon Cerritos de Indio in Uruguay Late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil Landscape archaeology in the southern Brazilian lowlands Pre-Columbian cultural landscape as memory places