William I Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 131709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William I Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | William I |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS W I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Anthropogenic soils in the Central Amazon: From Categories to a Continuum
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), one of the best-known examples of anthropogenic (man-made) soils, are the result of Amerindian settlements in the pre-Columbian period. ADE are highly variable in terms of their size, shape, depth and physical and chemical make-up. Scholars tend to divide ADE into two categories: terra preta and terra mulata. The former are dark and highly fertile soils replete with ceramic shards, indicating former areas of habitatio…
Neither Biblical Plague nor Pristine Myth: A Lesson from Central European Sparrows
The historical superabundance of passenger pigeons in North America and of house sparrows in Central Europe is anthropogenic; that is, the result of human actions, in these cases with unintended consequences. In this article we concentrate on the superabundance of sparrows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and outline the reasons for it. Both the passenger pigeon and the sparrow examples serve as ideal types for misplaced understanding o…
The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing
Pre-Columbian farmers of the Neotropical lowlands numbered an estimated 25 million by 1492, with at least 80 percent living within forest biomes. It is now well established that significant areas of Neotropical forests were cleared and burned to facilitate agricultural activities before the arrival of Europeans. Paleoecological and archaeological evidence shows that demographic pressure on forest resources-facilitated by anthropogenic burning-inc…
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future s…
Research on Anthropogenic Dark Earth Soils. Could It Be a Solution for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Amazon
History, Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives of Geoecological Research Concerning the Origin of Amazonian Anthropogenic Dark Earths (Terra Preta)
Towards an Understanding of Amazonian Dark Earths
Population nucleation, intensive agriculture, and environmental degradation: The Cahokia example
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time
Development of Anthrosol Research
Combined magnetic and chemical surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number I, Illinois
The Quantitative Analysis of Soil Phosphate
Developments in environmental quality testing have revealed the need for a reappraisal of the methods of phosphate determination employed by archaeologists. The results of such a reappraisal are presented with recommendations for the implementation of a new technique of quantitative phosphate determination called sequential fractionation. With this technique three discrete fractions are determined by differential solubility criteria. These fracti…
The peasant urbanites — a study of rural-urban mobility in Serbia
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future s…
The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing
Pre-Columbian farmers of the Neotropical lowlands numbered an estimated 25 million by 1492, with at least 80 percent living within forest biomes. It is now well established that significant areas of Neotropical forests were cleared and burned to facilitate agricultural activities before the arrival of Europeans. Paleoecological and archaeological evidence shows that demographic pressure on forest resources-facilitated by anthropogenic burning-inc…
Anthropogenic soils in the Central Amazon: From Categories to a Continuum
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), one of the best-known examples of anthropogenic (man-made) soils, are the result of Amerindian settlements in the pre-Columbian period. ADE are highly variable in terms of their size, shape, depth and physical and chemical make-up. Scholars tend to divide ADE into two categories: terra preta and terra mulata. The former are dark and highly fertile soils replete with ceramic shards, indicating former areas of habitatio…
The Quantitative Analysis of Soil Phosphate
Developments in environmental quality testing have revealed the need for a reappraisal of the methods of phosphate determination employed by archaeologists. The results of such a reappraisal are presented with recommendations for the implementation of a new technique of quantitative phosphate determination called sequential fractionation. With this technique three discrete fractions are determined by differential solubility criteria. These fracti…
Population nucleation, intensive agriculture, and environmental degradation: The Cahokia example
The peasant urbanites — a study of rural-urban mobility in Serbia
Combined magnetic and chemical surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number I, Illinois
Neither Biblical Plague nor Pristine Myth: A Lesson from Central European Sparrows
The historical superabundance of passenger pigeons in North America and of house sparrows in Central Europe is anthropogenic; that is, the result of human actions, in these cases with unintended consequences. In this article we concentrate on the superabundance of sparrows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and outline the reasons for it. Both the passenger pigeon and the sparrow examples serve as ideal types for misplaced understanding o…
The peasant urbanites — a study of rural-urban mobility in Serbia
The Quantitative Analysis of Soil Phosphate
Developments in environmental quality testing have revealed the need for a reappraisal of the methods of phosphate determination employed by archaeologists. The results of such a reappraisal are presented with recommendations for the implementation of a new technique of quantitative phosphate determination called sequential fractionation. With this technique three discrete fractions are determined by differential solubility criteria. These fracti…
Combined magnetic and chemical surveys of Forts Kaskaskia and de Chartres Number I, Illinois
Development of Anthrosol Research
Research on Anthropogenic Dark Earth Soils. Could It Be a Solution for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Amazon
History, Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives of Geoecological Research Concerning the Origin of Amazonian Anthropogenic Dark Earths (Terra Preta)
Towards an Understanding of Amazonian Dark Earths
Population nucleation, intensive agriculture, and environmental degradation: The Cahokia example
Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time
Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future s…
Neither Biblical Plague nor Pristine Myth: A Lesson from Central European Sparrows
The historical superabundance of passenger pigeons in North America and of house sparrows in Central Europe is anthropogenic; that is, the result of human actions, in these cases with unintended consequences. In this article we concentrate on the superabundance of sparrows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and outline the reasons for it. Both the passenger pigeon and the sparrow examples serve as ideal types for misplaced understanding o…
The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing
Pre-Columbian farmers of the Neotropical lowlands numbered an estimated 25 million by 1492, with at least 80 percent living within forest biomes. It is now well established that significant areas of Neotropical forests were cleared and burned to facilitate agricultural activities before the arrival of Europeans. Paleoecological and archaeological evidence shows that demographic pressure on forest resources-facilitated by anthropogenic burning-inc…
Anthropogenic soils in the Central Amazon: From Categories to a Continuum
Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), one of the best-known examples of anthropogenic (man-made) soils, are the result of Amerindian settlements in the pre-Columbian period. ADE are highly variable in terms of their size, shape, depth and physical and chemical make-up. Scholars tend to divide ADE into two categories: terra preta and terra mulata. The former are dark and highly fertile soils replete with ceramic shards, indicating former areas of habitatio…
Geography (11 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Biology (6 works) · Amazon rainforest (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Amazonian (4 works) · Indigenous Health and Education (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works)