Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures ix
4. List of Contributors xv
5. Foreword xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. 1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings 1
8. 2. Climate Change in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture 13
9. 3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America 39
10. 4. Anthropocentric FoodWebs in the Precolumbian Americas 89
11. 5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico 121
12. 6. PrehispanicWater Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning 147
13. 7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic Maya Landscapes 179
14. 8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests 203
15. 9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley 225
16. 10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment 251
17. 11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes: An Overview 281
18. 12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape 311
19. 13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History 357
20. 14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America: An Overview 391
21. 15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat 455
22. Summary and Conclusions 493
23. Index 507