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Islands in the Rainforest - Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia (Hardcover, New)
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Islands in the Rainforest - Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
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St(r)phen RostainOCOs 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. RostainOCOs work demands a radical
rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical
lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the
course of millennia.
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