Historical ecology is a new interdisciplinary research program concerned with
comprehending temporal and spatial dimensions in the relationships of human societies to …

Amazonian archaeology has made major advances in recent decades, particularly in
understanding coupled human environmental systems. Like other tropical forest regions …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural
environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking …

Abstract The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES), widely understood as the “benefits that
humans receive from the natural functioning of healthy ecosystems”(Jeffers et al., 2015) …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of 'technology'itself
a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a …

In this chapter, I introduce historical ecology, new ecology, landscape, and domestication of
landscape as key concepts for understanding complex, long term interactions between …

The legendary El Dorado—the city of gold—remains a mere legend, but astonishing new
discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex …

This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by
human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and …