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The Archaeology of Environmental Change : Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience
Title
The Archaeology of Environmental Change : Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience / edited by Christopher T. Fisher, J. Brett Hill, and Gary M. Feinman.
ISBN
9780816549122
9780816514847
9780816526765
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations, maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This book shows that today's challenges of causing and reacting to environmental change, can be better approached through an attempt to understand how societies in the past dealt with similar circumstances. The contributors draw on archaeological research in multiple regions--North America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, and Africa--from time periods spanning the Holocene, and from environments ranging from tropical forest to desert. They show that by examining long-term trajectories of socio-natural relationships we can better define concepts such as sustainability, land degradation, and conservation-and that gaining a more accurate and complete understanding of these connections is essential for evaluating current theories and models of environmental degradation and conservation.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
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 [and others]
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 Pátzcuaro 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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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