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Imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas
- Title
- Imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lenta, David L. (David Lewis), 1951-
- Description
- xx, 547 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- The historical ecology series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- HBC 00-13378
- ISBN
- 0231111568 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231111576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00022681
- OCLC
- 43615295
- Title
- Imperfect balance : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz, editor.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
- Series
- The historical ecology series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lenta, David L. (David Lewis), 1951-
- Research Call Number
- HBC 00-13378