Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019255056X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192550569
• Author: Patrick Roberts

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time.

Table contents:

1. Introducing Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

2. Tropical Forests: Natural History, Diversity, and Potentiality as Theatres of Human Adaptation and Negotiation

3. Cradle Under the Canopy: The Forest Origins of our Ape and Hominin Ancestors and the Tropical Forest Forays of the Genus Homo

4. Into the Woods: Early Homo sapiens and Tropical Forest Colonization

5. Tropical Bounties: The Emergence of Tropical Forest Agricultures

6. ‘Ruins’ of the Forest: Social Complexity and Tropical Cities

7. The Last in a Long Line: Historical and Ethnographic Tropical Forest Encounters

8. The Tropical ‘Anthropocene’: A Modern Battleground or a Long-Term Framework?

9. Forests of Plenty? Comparisons and Conclusions

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