Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology

William L. Balee is professor of anthropology at Tulane University. He is the author of Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany-The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People and the editor of Advances in Historical Ecology. Clark L. Erickson is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and associate curator of the American Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. William L. Balee, is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. He is the editor of Advances in Historical Ecology (1998) and the author of Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany - The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People (1994). Clark L. Erickson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. He is writing a book for Cambridge University Press titled Waru, Waru: Ancient Andean Agriculture.

• Preface Contributors Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology, by William Balee and Clark L. Erickson Part 1 1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Peten, by David G. Campbell, Anabel Ford, Karen S. Lowell, Jay Walker, Jeffrey K. Lake, Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Andrew Townesmith, and Michael Balick 2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta, by Elizabeth Graham 3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru, by Christine A. Hastorf 4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics, by Peter W. Stahl Part 2 5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia, by William M. Denevan 6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia, by Charles R. Clement 7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia, Clark L. Erickson and William Balee 8. The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon, by Clark L. Erickson 9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia, by Eduardo G. Neves and James B. Petersen 10. History, Ecology, and Alterity: Visualizing Polity in Ancient Amazonia, by Michael Heckenberger 11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer: Historical Ecology of Guaja Subsistence, Sociality, and Symbolism After 1500, by Loretta A. Cormier 12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future: Historical Ecology and the Study of Contemporary Land-Use Change in the Amazon, by Eduardo S. Brondizio Index

A welcome addition. -- Emilio F. Moran Quarterly Review of Biology This book succeeds admirably in advancing the theoretical status and ethnographic scope of the historical ecological research position. -- Stanford Zent Journal of Anthropological Research A well-crafted and well-rounded selection of case studies and will unquestionably make a splendid addition to the shelves. -- Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. Human Ecology The disciplinary diversity among the chapters yields a well-rounded perspective on the topic. Landscape Ecology