Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7516671
AutoresThomas M Whitmore (autor de correspondencia), B L Turner (0000-0002-6507-521X), B L Turner Ii
Año2002
Páginas311
Fecha de publicación2002-02-07
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaCultivated landscapes of middle America on the eve of conquest (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199244539.001.0001
OpenAlexW2090071434
Open LibraryOL17046079M
ISBN9780199244539
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas74

The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made the most comprehensive survey ever achieved of pre-Colombian agriculture and culture throughout the continents. It addresses the question of what lands were permanently occupied; how they were used; and what the environmental and social implications of this use were. The answers to these questions are central to such wide-ranging themes as indigenous land rights, the conservation and preservation 'ethic' of these native people, and the global carbon cycle. The kind, scale, and location of land use is documented and mapped in detail. The book not only demonstrates the sophistication of the agricultural landscapes and their local integration, but also investigates the omissions and land degradation of the native agriculturalists. Drawing on this wealth of data the authors make a stimulating contribution to the debate about resource, land, and population in the Americas

Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Population growth · Resource (disambiguation · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Demography · History · Latin American history and culture · Central america · Indians of Central America · Indians of mexico · Irrigation farming · Mexico · Shifting cultivation · Traditional farming · Ecology