Forgotten landscapes : how Native Americans created the Pre-Columbian world and what we can learn from it /
"Rediscover the thriving civilizations of Pre-Columbian America and learn how Native ingenuity transformed the landscape into a flourishing world we can still learn from today. North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North...
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Essex, Connecticut :
Prometheus Books,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The view from Mantle Rock
- Welcome to America : before 1492
- Forgotten fires : how natives used fire to manage the landscape
- Masters of the hunt : how native hunting and fishing controlled animal populations
- Farm or forest? Agriculture in prehistoric America
- The blessings of water : irrigation in prehistoric America
- Little paradises : orchards in prehistoric Native America
- European diseases : the beginning of the end of Native America
- A toxic paradise : the San Joaquin Valley as the ultimate white monoculture dream
- Toward a healthier world, with a little help from your local natives
- Epilogue: What we have lost, and what we can regain.