Interpreting interfluvial landscape transformations in the pre-Columbian Amazon

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1598-1603

  Stahl, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

agroforestry; Amazon; Anthropocene; archaeology; historical ecology; paleoecology

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ANTHROPOCENE; ARCHAEOLOGY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PALEOECOLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84941921482     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615588372     Document Type: Article

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