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Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity (Hardcover)
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In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature'
and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral,
faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and
urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood
that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical
forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and
anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring
together evidence for the nature of human interactions with
tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins
in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues.
Following a review of the natural history and variability of
tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and
human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments
through time. Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this
book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified
tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While
agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical
forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and
later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification
for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on
tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century. Rather, such a
long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of
sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies
in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated
approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of
millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these
habitats.
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