Overview
- Scrutinizes human transformation of South American landscapes and environments in historical times
- Offers insight into local indigenous knowledge
- Sheds light on conservation and restoration ecology in tropical and subtropical South America
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Legacies
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Our Shared Past
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Historical ecology in the Americas
- Lowland South America
- Restoration ecology in South America
- Archaeology and conservation biology in South America
- Archaeology and symbolism
- Archaeology in the Baixo Rio Juruá region
- Early human transformation of forest environments
- Ceramic technology in the Americas
- Traditional Knowledge and biodiversity in the Amazon
- Pre-Columbian Hornos de pozo
- Fish and fisheries in lowland areas of Merin Lagoon
- Cerritos de Indio in Uruguay
- Late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil
- Landscape archaeology in the southern Brazilian lowlands
- Pre-Columbian cultural landscape as memory places
- Conservation of monumental landscapes
- Forest management among the Zoé people
- Sambaquis and Amerindian anthologies
- Historical ecology and landscape of pile dewllings of Maranhão
About this book
This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity. This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the Pleistocene to Holocene, but the nature and scale of these interactions are matters of debate and their legacy to modern lowland environments is not fully understood.
This book brings together works from distinct disciplines, including theoretical and methodological approaches on single case studies or broad regional syntheses, with no chronological constraint. The editors aim to generate a novel contribution reporting the most recent and ground-breaking research on human interactions with past environments and resources in lowland South America, from pre-Columbian to Colonial times. The volume also discusses the legacy of these past interactions and their potential contribution to informing current conservationand development agendas, providing examples of how archaeology and paleoecology can fill gaps in conservation and developmental policy. This volume will be of interest to students, archaeologists, and readers of Latin American studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
André Carlo Colonese is a Director of Research in the Department of Prehistory and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). He specializes in environmental and molecular archaeology, utilizing zooarchaeology, light stable isotopes and organic residue analysis to gain insight into human-environment interactions and economic practices of the past. He has led several multidisciplinary research projects to assess the long-term development of small-scale fisheries in Brazil and their impact on present-day marine ecosystems and food security in the region. His research interests also include the study of early food production in tropical coastal areas of South America, and the role that Mediterranean coastal environments played in supporting Pleistocene and Holocene foragers and early farming communities in southern Europe.
Rafael Milheira is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil). He is also the head of the Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Anthropology and Archaeology (LEPAARQ-UFPEL) and a researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq-Brazil). His research focuses on the archaeology and long-term indigenous history of Patos and Mirim Lagoons in southern Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America
Editors: André Carlo Colonese, Rafael Guedes Milheira
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32284-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32283-9Published: 23 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32286-0Due: 24 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32284-6Published: 22 June 2023
Series ISSN: 1568-2722
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, History of the Americas