Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes write by William M. Denevan. This book was released on 2002. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes write by William M. Denevan. This book was released on 2001. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes write by William M. Denevan. This book was released on 2002. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.
Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide
Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide write by Adrian J. Pearce. This book was released on 2020-10-21. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).
Forest, Field, and Fallow
Forest, Field, and Fallow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest, Field, and Fallow write by Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Forest, Field, and Fallow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M. Denevan to explain the impact and influence his thinking had on the conceptual advancement not only in his own discipline, but in a range of related disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, and environmental history. The book is organized around eight themes, demonstrating Denevan’s early and profound insights on topics that remain of current relevance today, and the scholarly impact his writing had on subsequent scholarship. The book is unique because it offers commentary from active scholars who address the impacts of Prof. Denevan's thinking and work on contemporary environmental and ecological issues, with a focus on several groundbreaking themes (e.g. historical demography, agricultural landforms, cultural plant geography, human environmental impacts, indigenous agro-ecology, tropical agriculture, livestock and landscape, and synthetic contributions). This book will be of interest to a range of scholars in geography, anthropology, archaeology, history, and ecology, as well as to environmental managers and practitioners, especially those working for non-profit organizations and government organizations tasked with finding ways to adapt to global environmental change.
