- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Series Statement
- British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monographs
- Uniform Title
- Lost woodlands of ancient Nasca (Online)
- British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
- Alternative Title
- Lost woodlands of ancient Nasca (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The south coast desert -- A lost landscape: ancient settlement of Samaca and Ullujaya -- Tracing landscape change: the geomorphological record -- Tracing human ecology: the archaeobotanical and malacological record -- deforestation -- The Huarango: the genus Prosopis on the south coast -- The Huarango in the desert riparian and agriculural ecosystem -- The Sonoran desert: an ethnoecological analogue? -- Putting the tree back into the landscape -- Appendix A: a comparison of Sonoran Desert and South Coast Peru flora.
- LCCN
- 2011284127
- OCLC
- ssj0001630411
- Author
Beresford-Jones, David.
- Title
The lost woodlands of ancient Nasca [electronic resource] : a case-study in ecological and cultural collapse / by David Beresford-Jones.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Series
British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monographs
British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
To 1500