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Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia: 04 (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)
Stéphen Rostain
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Description for Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia: 04 (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)
paperback. 'The culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana, this book demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlemtn and landscape management in tropical lowlands over millennia. Series: New Frontiers in Historical Ecology. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HDD; JHM; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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 of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation ... Read more
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 of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Routledge United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Series
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Walnut Creek, United States
ISBN
9781598746358
SKU
V9781598746358
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About Stéphen Rostain
Stephen Rostain is Director of Investigation at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. He received his Ph.D. on the archaeology of French Guiana in 1994 from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has conducted archaeological excavations in France, Mexico, Guatemala, Aruba and Brazil, but his main investigations have been conducted in Amazonia, especially in the Guianas and ... Read more
Reviews for Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia: 04 (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)
"This book is part of a new phase in Amazonian cultural geography and anthropology, and shows that the field is branching and spreading...As landscape archaeology and geography of the Amazon develops, this book can serve as a key text on raised field agriculture in a particular geographic context, and as an introduction to pre-Columbian agricultural systems more generally." - ... Read more