1st Edition
Islands in the Rainforest Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
By Stéphen Rostain
Copyright 2013
277 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
277 Pages
by
Routledge
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Stéphen 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... Read more
Foreword by Philippe Descola, Acknowledgements, Introduction: So Much Water! Chapter 1: Indigenous Agricultural savoir-faire Chapter 2: Humans and Environment Chapter 3: Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact Chapter 4: A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest? Chapter 5: 500 Years of Solitude, Conclusion: East of Eden References Index
Biography
Stéphen Rostain
"This book is part of a new phase in Amazonian cultural geography and anthropology, and shows that the field is branching and spreading...As landscape archaeology and geography of the Amazon develops, this book can serve as a key text on raised field agriculture in a particular geographic context, and as an introduction to pre-Columbian agricultural systems more generally."
- John Walker, University of Central Florida, AAG Review of Books
