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The lost woodlands of ancient Nasca : a case-study in ecological and cultural collapse. David Beresford-Jones

Beresford-Jones, David 2011

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The lost woodlands of ancient Nasca : a case-study in ecological and cultural collapse. David Beresford-Jones
Author: Beresford-Jones, David
Subjects: Indiens d'Amérique -- Histoire -- Pérou;
Culture de Nazca;
Paléoenvironnement -- Histoire -- Pérou;
Archéologie du paysage -- Histoire -- Pérou;
Nazca culture;
Environmental archaeology -- Peru;
Deforestation -- History -- Peru -- To 1500;
Environmental disasters -- History -- Peru -- To 1500;
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History -- Peru -- To 1500;
Landscape archaeology -- Peru
Description: Bibliogr. p. [237]-255. Index
Introduction The south coast desert A lost landscape: ancient settlement of Samaca and Ullujaya Tracing landscape change: the geomorphological record Tracing human ecology: the archaeobotanical and malacological record deforestation The Huarango: the genus Prosopis on the south coast The Huarango in the desert riparian and agriculural ecosystem The Sonoran desert: an ethnoecological analogue? Putting the tree back into the landscape Appendix A: a comparison of Sonoran Desert and South Coast Peru flora
Related Titles: Series: British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monographs
Publisher: Oxford New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011
Creation Date: 2011
Format: 1 vol. (XII-266 p.) : ill. en coul., couv. ill. en coul., cartes ; 25 cm
Language: English

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