Humans and the environment: new archaeological perspectives for the twenty-first century

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PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES CONTRIBUTORS SECTION 1: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT 1. Environment in North American and European archaeology 2. Environment in Soviet and post-Soviet Archaeology SECTION 2: ENVIRONMENT AS ARTEFACT 3. Indigeneity of Past Landscape Transformations of the Tropics 4. Forced Moves or just Good Moves? Rethinking environmental decision making among East African intensive cultivators 5. Is the Environment Good to Eat or Good to Paint? Faunal consumption and avoidance among hunter-gatherer-fishers in the Beagle Channel Region (Tierra del Fuego, South America) 6. From Ecological Constraints To Cultural Identities: Pre-Columbian attitudes toward food 7. Burning the Bush: the development of Australia s Southwest Botanical Province SECTION 3: ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES AND APPLIED ARCHAEOLOGY 8. Archaeology's Potential to Contribute to Pools of Agronomic Knowledge: a case of applied agro-achaeology in the Bolivian Yungas 9. Applied Archaeology in the Andes: the contribution of pre-Hispanic agricultural terracing to environmental and rural development strategies 10. The role of Agricultural and Environmental History in East African Developmental Discourse 11. Past and Present Farming: changes in terms of engagement SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENT, DISASTER, AND MEMORY 12. An Inheritance of Loss: Archaeology's imagination of disaster 13. Nature, Identity, and Disaster: prehistoric lake dwelling in Central Europe. 14. Memories and Expectations of Environmental Disaster: some lessons from the Marshall Islands 15. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: lessons from the past for the future SECTION 5: NEW DIRECTIONS 16. Archaeology and Environmental Anthropology: collaborations in historical and political ecology 17. The Archaeology of Global Environment Change 18. Humanised Environments BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX