This book brings together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time.
This book brings together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time.
Patrick Roberts is Group Leader of the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He has pioneered the use of stable isotope analysis of human fossils for reconstructing the tropical forest adaptations of our species during its dispersal beyond Africa. Patrick has a broader interest in studying the time-depth of human impacts on tropical forests - now the most threatened terrestrial ecosystems after the polar ice-caps - and how this has varied across space and time. He is committed to current UNESCO initiatives that bring together archaeologists and anthropologists to discuss potential solutions for the conservation of ecological and cultural heritage in tropical forests today.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introducing Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity * 2: Tropical forests: Natural history, diversity, and potential as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation * 3: Cradle under the canopy: The forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo * 4: Into the woods: Early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonisation * 5: Tropical bounties: The emergence of tropical forest agricultures * 6: 'Ruins' of the forest: Social complexity and tropical cities * 7: The last in a long line: Historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters * 8: The tropical 'Anthropocene': A modern battleground or long-term framework? * 9: Forests of plenty?: Comparisons and conclusions
* 1: Introducing Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity * 2: Tropical forests: Natural history, diversity, and potential as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation * 3: Cradle under the canopy: The forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo * 4: Into the woods: Early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonisation * 5: Tropical bounties: The emergence of tropical forest agricultures * 6: 'Ruins' of the forest: Social complexity and tropical cities * 7: The last in a long line: Historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters * 8: The tropical 'Anthropocene': A modern battleground or long-term framework? * 9: Forests of plenty?: Comparisons and conclusions
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