Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change
Subtitle: Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America since the Pleistocene (Cambridge Studies in Ecology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780521662703
Subjects: Human ecology; Indigenous peoples; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Effect of human beings on; Science; Science/Mathematics; North America; Nature; Human Geography; Science / Biology; Social Science-Human Geography; Ecology; East (U.S.); Paleo-Indians
First sentence: The concept of the Native American as "noble savage," living in harmony with nature, stems largely from the writings of the French philosopher, Rousseau, who lived from AD 1712 to 1778.