Imperfect balance
Subtitle: landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas
By: David L. Lentz, editor
Contributors: Lentz, David Lewis
Series: The historical ecology series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: Human ecology -- America -- History; Landscape changes -- America -- History; Indians -- Land tenure; Indians -- Antiquities; America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: definitions and conceptual underpinnings / David L. Lentz; title: Climate change in the Northern American tropics and subtropics since the last ice age: implications for environment and culture / David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis; title: Vegetation in the floristic regions of North and Central America / Andrew M. Greller; title: Anthropocentric food webs in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz; title: Prehispanic agricultural systems in the basin of Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia; title: Prehispanic water management and agricultural intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: implications for contemporary ecological planning / Charles S. Spencer; title: Stability and instability in prehispanic Maya landscapes / Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach; title: Precolumbian silviculture and indigenous management of neotropical forests / Charles M. Peters; title: Native farming systems and ecosystems in the Mississippi River valley / Gayle J. Fritz; title: Hohokam impacts on Sonoran Desert environment / Suzanne K. Fish; title: Vegetation of the tropical Andes: an overview / James L. Luteyn and Steven P. Churchill; title: The Lake Titicaca Basin: a Precolumbian built landscape / Clark L. Erickson; title: Andean land use at the cusp of history / Terence N. D'Altroy; title: Lowland vegetation of tropical South America: an overview / Douglas C. Daly and John D. Mitchell; title: The lower Amazon: a dynamic human habitat / Anna C. Roosevelt