Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca - A Case-Study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse

Informationen zum Autor David Beresford-Jones is a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. His work seeks to bring together archaeology, archaeobotany and geomorphology to better understand prehistoric human ecology. He has directed the lower Ica Valley Archaeological Research Project in Peru since 2003. He also has interests in the origins of agriculture and the synthesis of archaeology and historical linguistics, especially in the Andes. He has contributed articles to journals such as Current Anthropology, Latin American Antiquity and Catena. Klappentext The vanished civilization of the Nasca is famous for its enigmatic giant ritual pathways through the desert pampa of Peru. But how and why did the civilization collapse? This new and detailed archaeological study argues that deforestation of river valleys, in particular the loss of the huarango tree, may have been to blame. Zusammenfassung The vanished civilization of the Nasca is famous for its enigmatic giant ritual pathways through the desert pampa of Peru. But how and why did the civilization collapse? This new and detailed archaeological study argues that deforestation of river valleys, in particular the loss of the huarango tree, may have been to blame. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The South Coast Desert 3: A Lost Landscape - Ancient Settlement of Ullujaya and Samaca 4: Tracing Landscape Change - The Geomorphological Record 5: Tracing Human Ecology - The Archaeobotanical and Malacological Record 6: Deforestation 7: The Huarango - The Genus Prosopis on the South Coast 8: The Huarango in Desert Riparian and Agricultural Ecosystems 9: The Sonoran Desert - An Ethnoecological Analogue 10: Putting the Tree Back into the Landscape

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Beresford-Jones, David (Research Associate Beresford-Jones, David (Research Associate and Fel Beresford-Jones, Beresford-Jones David
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780197264768
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726476-8
• Pages: 208
• Thèmes: British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Préhistoire, protohistoire; Peru, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Social impact of environmental issues, History of the Americas, Environmental archaeology