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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Contributors
- Foreword, by William Denevan
- 1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings
- 2. Climate Changes in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture
- 3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America
- 4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas
- 5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico
- 6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning
- 7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes
- 8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests
- 9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley
- 10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment
- 11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes
- 12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape
- 13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History
- 14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America -- An Overview
- 15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat
- Summary and Conclusions
- Index
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