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Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Paper, 788 pages, 122 figures
ISBN: 978-0-231-11157-7
$42.50
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September, 2000
Cloth, 788 pages, 122 figures
ISBN: 978-0-231-11156-0
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4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas, by David L. Lentz
3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America, by Andrew M. Greller
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
1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings, by David L. Lentz
Foreword, by William Denevan
Summary and Conclusions
15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat, by Anna C. Roosevelt
14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America--An Overview, by Douglas Daly and John Mitchell
13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History, by Terence N. D'Altroy
12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape, by Clark L. Erickson
11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes, by James Luteyn and Steven Churchill
10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment, by Suzanne Fish
9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley, by Gayle J. Fritz
8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests, by Charles Peters
7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes, by Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach
6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning, by Charles S. Spencer
5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico, by Emily McClung de Tapia