The archaeology of environmental change : socionatural legacies of degradation and resilience

Weitere Verfasser: Feinman, Gary M.
Fisher, Christopher T.
Hill, J. Brett 1960-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: vi, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : environmental studies for twenty-first-century conservation /
  • Christopher T. Fisher, J. Brett Hill, and Gary M. Feinman
  • The resilience of socioecological landscapes : lessons from the Hohokam /
  • Charles L. Redman, Margaret C. Nelson, and Ann P. Kinzig
  • What is an "environmental crisis" to an archaeologist? /
  • Sander E. van der Leeuw
  • Beyond sustainability : managed wetlands and water harvesting in ancient Mesoamerica /
  • Vernon L. Scarborough
  • Creating a stable landscape : soil conservation and adaptation among the ancient Maya /
  • Nicholas Dunning ... [et al.]
  • Farming the margins : on the social causes and consequences of soil-management strategies /
  • Tina L. Thurston
  • The human-wildlife conundrum : a view from East Africa /
  • Chapurukha M. Kusimba
  • What difference does environmental degradation make? : change and its significance in Transjordan /
  • J. Brett Hill
  • The earliest residents of Cyprus : ecological pariahs or harmonious settlers? /
  • Alan H. Simmons
  • Social changes triggered by Younger Dryas and the early Holocene climatic fluctuations in the Near East /
  • O. Bar-Yosef
  • Abandoning the garden : the population/land degradation fallacy as applied to the Lake Patzcuaro Basin in Mexico /
  • Christopher T. Fisher
  • Hohokam and Pima-Maricopa irrigation agriculturalists : maladaptive or resilient societies? /
  • John C. Ravesloot, J. Andrew Darling, and Michael R. Waters.