Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas

The extent of human impact on world environments is undeniable. At scales ranging from local to global, investigations continue to demonstrate that the ecosystems to which we currently belong are structured by human behavior. Catastrophic events such as war, disaster, disease, or economic decay have, at various times throughout history, led to the human abandonment of particular environments. What happens to a human—structured environment when the manner in which people use it abruptly chan...