Tropical forests in human prehistory, history, and modernity /

This text 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, the book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roberts, Patrick, 1991- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human ecology > Tropics. Prehistoric peoples > Tropics. Rain forests. Tropics > History. Forests and forestry > Tropics > History. Ethnology > Tropics. Écologie humaine > Régions tropicales. Ethnologie > Régions tropicales. Forêts pluviales. Régions tropicales > Histoire. rainforests. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social. Forests and forestry Prehistoric peoples Tropics Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity
Tropical forests : natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation
Cradle under the canopy : the forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo
Into the woods : early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonization
Tropical bounties ; the emergence of tropical forest agricultures
'Ruins' of the forest : social complexity and tropical cities
The last in a long line : historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters
The tropical 'Anthropocene' : a modern battleground or a long-term framework?
Forests of plenty? Comparisons and conclusions.