Questioning Rebound

People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvEmily Lena Jones,Jacob L Fisher,Jacob L. Fisher

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The record of human impact on world environments is undeniable; scholarship has shown that the ecosystems we live in today are structured by human behavior. Equally undeniable is the fact that events such as war, disaster, disease, or economic decay have, at various times throughout history, led to the human abandonment of particular environments. What happens to a human-structured environment when the way people use it suddenly changes? In Questioning Rebound, authors Emily Lena Jones and Jacob L. Fisher explore the archaeological record of a time when the human footprint on the land abruptly shifted: the period immediately following European contact in the Americas. During this time of disease-driven mortality, genocide, incarceration, and forced labor of Indigenous peoples, American landscapes changed in fundamental ways, producing short-lived ecosystems that later became the basis of myths about the American environments.Questioning Rebound explores the record and the causes of environmental change during the post-Columbian period, featuring case studies throughout the Americas. While both the record for and the apparent causes of the changes in the human footprint vary, the record of post- Columbian environmental change consistently reflects the environmental impacts of past social upheaval.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-16
Mått177 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor194
FörlagUniversity of Utah Press,U.S.
ISBN9781647691059

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Emily Lena Jones is associate professor of anthropology and faculty associate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute and Center for Stable Isotopes at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe. She studies past human-environment interactions through the lens of archaeological animal remains, with a particular interest in the connections between humans, non-human animals, and environmental change.Jacob L. Fisher is professor of anthropology and director of the Archaeological Curation Facility at California State University, Sacramento. His interests primarily lie in the role animal resources played in foraging-based societies with secondary research goals in conservation paleobiology and historical ecology.

List of FiguresList of Tables1. Questioning Rebound: Placing the Protohistoric in the Context of Anthropogenic Environmental ChangeJacob L. Fisher and Emily Lena Jones2. The “Pristine Myth,” Post-Columbian Environmental Rebound, and MulticausalityEmily Lena Jones3. Apocalypse Then: Searching for Faunal Rebound in the Post-Contact West IndiesChristina M. Giovas4. Animales Salvaje y DomÉsticos: The Environmental Consequences of Spanish Colonization in the Maya RegionAsia Alsgaard and Emily Lena Jones5. Late Holocene Environmental Rebound in Northwest Patagonia: Zooarchaeological, Stable Isotope, Radiocarbon, and Ancient DNA EvidenceGustavo Neme, Cinthia Abbona, Adolfo Gil, Clara Otaola, Jeff A. Johnson, Lisa Nagaoka, and Steve Wolverton6. Rebound of Fire Regimes in the Dry Forests and Woodlands of the Southwest U.S.A., AD1200–1900Christopher I. Roos, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Matthew J. Liebmann7. The Evidence for Wildlife Irruptions in Protohistoric CaliforniaJacob L. Fisher8. Ecological Shifts and Anthropogenic Burning in Central California, AD1250–2000Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson9. Environmental Rebound and the Disruption of Indigenous Land Management following European Colonization of Southern New EnglandElic M. Weitzel10. Disease, Social Injustice, and Historical Ecology: Reflections on Archaeology and Environmental ReboundsTorben RickReferencesList of ContributorsIndex