2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology 1
6. PART 1
7. 1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén 21
8. 2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta 57
9. 3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru 87
10. 4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics 127
11. PART 2
12. 5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia 153
13. 6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia 165
14. 7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia 187
15. 8. The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon 235
16. 9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia 279
17. 10. History, Ecology, and Alterity 311
18. 11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer 341
19. 12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future 365
20. Index 407