Islands in the Rainforest : Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia /

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Author / Creator:	Rostain, Stéphen.
Imprint:	Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4 New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 4.
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Agriculture -- French Guiana. Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- French Guiana. Raised field agriculture -- French Guiana -- History. Ethnoecology -- French Guiana. Indians of South America -- Agriculture. Indians of South America -- Land tenure. Ethnoecology. Raised field agriculture. French Guiana. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238223

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Other authors / contributors:	Eliott, Michelle.
ISBN:	1598746367 9781598746365 9781611326871 1611326877 9781598746341 1598746340
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island.
Other form:	Print version: Rostain, Stéphen. Islands in the rainforest. Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013 9781598746341 1598746340
Standard no.:	40021710654

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