Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology, by William Balee and Clark L. Erickson
Part 1
1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Peten, by David G. Campbell, Anabel Ford, Karen S. Lowell, Jay Walker, Jeffrey K. Lake, Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Andrew Townesmith, and Michael Balick
2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta, by Elizabeth Graham
3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru, by Christine A. Hastorf
4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics, by Peter W. Stahl
Part 2
5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia, by William M. Denevan
6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia, by Charles R. Clement
7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia, Clark L. Erickson and William Balee
8. The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon, by Clark L. Erickson
9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia, by Eduardo G. Neves and James B. Petersen
10. History, Ecology, and Alterity: Visualizing Polity in Ancient Amazonia, by Michael Heckenberger
11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer: Historical Ecology of Guaja Subsistence, Sociality, and Symbolism After 1500, by Loretta A. Cormier
12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future: Historical Ecology and the Study of Contemporary Land-Use Change in the Amazon, by Eduardo S. Brondizio
Index