The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca: A Case-study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse
Author:   David Beresford-Jones (Research Associate and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780197264768


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   30 June 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   David Beresford-Jones (Research Associate and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.892kg
ISBN:  

9780197264768


ISBN 10:   019726476
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   30 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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