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BL
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625566
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| Title & Author
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An imperfect balance : : landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas /\ David L. Lentz, editor
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, 2000
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| Series Statement
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The historical ecology series
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| Page. NO
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xx, 547 p. :: ill., maps ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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0231111568 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0231111576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: definitions and conceptual underpinnings / David L. Lentz -- Climate change in the Northern American tropics and subtropics since the last ice age: implications for environment and culture / David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis -- Vegetation in the floristic regions of North and Central America / Andrew M. Greller -- Anthropocentric food webs in the Precolumbian Americas / David L. Lentz -- Prehispanic agricultural systems in the basin of Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia -- Prehispanic water management and agricultural intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: implications for contemporary ecological planning / Charles S. Spencer -- Stability and instability in prehispanic Maya landscapes / Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach -- Precolumbian silviculture and indigenous management of neotropical forests / Charles M. Peters -- Native farming systems and ecosystems in the Mississippi River valley / Gayle J. Fritz -- Hohokam impacts on Sonoran Desert environment / Suzanne K. Fish -- Vegetation of the tropical Andes: an overview / James L. Luteyn and Steven P. Churchill -- The Lake Titicaca Basin: a Precolumbian built landscape / Clark L. Erickson -- Andean land use at the cusp of history / Terence N. D'Altroy -- Lowland vegetation of tropical South America: an overview / Douglas C. Daly and John D. Mitchell -- The lower Amazon: a dynamic human habitat / Anna C. Roosevelt
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| Subject
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Human ecology-- America-- History
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Landscape changes-- America-- History
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Indians-- Land tenure
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Indians-- Antiquities
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America, Antiquities
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2/097
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| LC Classification
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GF500.A5 2000
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| Added Entry
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Lentz, David Lewis
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