LEADER 00000cam a2200745Ma 4500 001 ocn895710099 003 OCoLC 005 20170127064020.3 006 m o d 007 cr |n||||||||| 008 141110s2013 cauab ob 001 0 eng d 019 818851735 020 1598746367|q(electronic book) 020 9781598746365|q(electronic book) 020 9781611326871|q(consumer electronic) 020 1611326877|q(consumer electronic) 020 |z9781598746341|q(hardback ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z1598746340|q(hardback ;|qalkaline paper) 024 8 40021710654 035 (OCoLC)895710099|z(OCoLC)818851735 040 CN3GA|beng|epn|cCN3GA|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dOCLCF|dEBLCP|dE7B |dN$T|dCOO|dOCLCQ|dNKT 043 s-fg--- 049 RIDW 050 4 F2460.2.A37|bR68 2013 072 7 HIS|x024000|2bisacsh 072 7 HIS|x033000|2bisacsh 082 04 980/.01|223 090 F2460.2.A37|bR68 2013 100 1 Rostain, Stéphen.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ no90014656 245 10 Islands in the Rainforest :|bLandscape Management in Pre- Columbian Amazonia /|cStéphen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott. 264 1 Walnut Creek, CA :|bLeft Coast Press, Inc.,|c[2013] 264 4 |c©2013 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 New frontiers in historical ecology ;|vv. 4 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265) and index. 505 0 List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: "So Much Water!"; Chapter 1. Indigenous Agricultural Savoir Faire; Chapter 2. Humans and Environment: A Happy Marriage; Chapter 3. Terra Cognita: 10,000 Years of Human Impact; Chapter 4. A Natural Garden or a Domesticated Forest?; Chapter 5. "500 Years of Solitude"; Conclusion: "East of Eden"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 520 Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised- field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Indians of South America|xAgriculture|zFrench Guiana. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007049 650 0 Indians of South America|xLand tenure|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85065563|zFrench Guiana.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79128019-781 650 0 Raised field agriculture|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh2003008394|zFrench Guiana|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79128019-781|xHistory.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 650 0 Ethnoecology|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh2001000104|zFrench Guiana.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n79128019-781 650 7 Indians of South America|xAgriculture.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/969964 650 7 Indians of South America|xLand tenure.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/970028 650 7 Raised field agriculture.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1089584 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Ethnoecology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/970226 651 7 French Guiana.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1206832 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 700 1 Eliott, Michelle.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2012043762 776 08 |iPrint version:|aRostain, Stéphen.|tIslands in the rainforest.|dWalnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013|z9781598746341|z1598746340|w(DLC) 2012026551 830 0 New frontiers in historical ecology ;|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/no2011096947|vv. 4. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=503673|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20170505|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic new|lridw 994 92|bRID