Tropical forests in human prehistory, history, and modernity
| 1. Verfasser: |
Roberts, Patrick
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity
- Tropical forests: natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaption and negotiation
- Cradle under the canopy: the forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo
- Into the woods: early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonization
- Tropical bounties: the emergence of tropical forest agricultures
- 'Ruins' of the forest: social complexity and tropical cities
- The last in a long line: historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters
- The tropical 'Anthropocene': a modern battleground or a long-term framework?
- Forest of plenty? Comparisons and conclusions.
