Islands in the Rainforest : Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia / Stéphen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott.

Stéphen Rostain's 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...

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Main Author: Rostain, Stéphen
Other Authors: Eliott, Michelle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013.
Series:New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4.
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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: "So Much Water!"; Chapter 1. Indigenous Agricultural Savoir Faire; Chapter 2. Humans and Environment: A Happy Marriage; Chapter 3. Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact; Chapter 4. A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest?; Chapter 5. "500 Years of Solitude"; Conclusion: "East of Eden"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 
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