Islands in the Rainforest - Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia (Paperback)

Stephen 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 alike. Rostain's work demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the course of millennia.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	2013
Authors:	Stephen Rostain
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-635-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Plant life: general > General
LSN:	1-59874-635-9
Barcode:	9781598746358

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