Island Historical Ecology : Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
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| Title: | Island Historical Ecology : Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean |
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| Description: | In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology. |
| Authors: | Peter E. Siegel |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Landscape changes--Caribbean Area--History, Human ecology--Caribbean Area--History, Nature--Effect of human beings on--Caribbean Area--History |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology. |
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| ISBN: | 9781785337635 9781836950585 9781785337642 9781836951803 |
