METHODS IN HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
This book presents some of the most recent tools, methods and concepts in historical ecology. It introduces students and researchers to state-of-the-art techniques and showcases a wide array of methods dedicated to understanding the history of tropical landscapes. The chapters cover the detection and characterisation of archaeological features, living organisms as witnesses of past human activities, ethnoecological knowledge of ancient anthropogenic landscapes and societal impacts of historical ecology. While mainly based on Amazonian experiences, the contributions aim to strengthen synergies between disciplines and to propose solutions that can be applied elsewhere in the field.
Guillaume Odonne is affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS) within the Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systmes Amazoniens (LEEISA) in Cayenne, French Guiana.
Jean-Franois Molino is based at the Institut de Recherche pour le Dveloppement (IRD) in Montpellier, France. He is deputy director of the Joint Research Unit AMAP (botAnique et Modlisation de lArchitecture des Plantes et des vgtations).
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Series Editors
William Bale
Tulane University
Carole L. Crumley
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dynamic new research in the genuinely interdisciplinary field of historical ecology is flourishing in restoration and landscape ecology, geography, forestry and range management, park design, biology, cultural anthropology, and anthropological archaeology. Historical ecology corrects the flaws of previous ecosystems and disequilibrium paradigms by constructing transdisciplinary histories of landscapes and regions that recognize the significance of human activity and the power of all forms of knowledge. The preferred theoretical approach of younger scholars in many social and natural science disciplines, historical ecology is also being put into practice around the world by such organizations as UNESCO. This series fosters the next generation of scholars offering a sophisticated grasp of human-environmental interrelationships. The series editors invite proposals for cutting-edge books that break new ground in theory or in the practical application of the historical ecology paradigm to contemporary problems.
Islands in the Rainforest
Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Stphen Rostain
Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
N. Thomas Hkansson and Mats Widgren, eds.
The Maya Forest Garden
Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands
Anabel Ford and Robert Nigh
Methods in Historical Ecology
Insights from Amazonia
Guillaume Odonne and Jean-Franois Molino, eds.
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/New-Frontiers-in-Historical-Ecology/book-series/LCPNFHE
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Names: Odonne, Guillaume, editor. | Molino, Jean-Franois, editor.
Title: Methods in historical ecology : insights from Amazonia / edited by
Guillaume Odonne and Jean-Franois Molino.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020019641 (print) | LCCN 2020019642 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367182205 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367182212 (paperback) |
ISBN 9780429060175 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Human ecologyAmazon River RegionHistory. |
EcologyMethodology.
Classification: LCC GF13.3.A53 M47 2021 (print) | LCC GF13.3.A53
(ebook) | DDC 304.20981/1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019641
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CONTENTS
by Clark L. Erickson
Guillaume Odonne and Jean-Franois Molino
PART I
Detection and characterisation of archaeological features
Stphen Rostain
Michel Brossard and Jeanne Brancier
Jeanne Brancier and Ccilia Cammas
Jeanne Brancier, Amandine Courte, Dominique Todisco and Michel Brossard
Franois Lvque
Franois Lvque
Mickal Mestre and Martijn van den Bel
Mickal Mestre, Grgoire Vincent, Caroline Bedeau, Nina Antonoff, Olivier Brunaux, Pierre Gautreau and Matthieu Noucher
PART II
Living organisms as witnesses of past human activities
Laurent Bremond and Charly Favier
Stphanie Bodin, Julie Morin-Rivat, Laurent Bremond, Rita Scheel-Ybert, Christophe Tardy and Christophe Vaschalde
Jean-Franois Molino, William Bale, Julien Engel, Claire Martin and Daniel Sabatier
Louise Brousseau, Pauline Garnier-Gr and Charles R. Clement
Nina Gazal, Antoine Brin, Sophie Manzi, Emeline Houl, Emmanuel Lapied, Thibaud Decans and Mlanie Roy
Doyle McKey, Delphine Renard and Rumsas Blatrix
PART III
Ethnoecological knowledge on ancient anthropogenic landscapes
Pierre Grenand and Damien Davy
Damien Davy, Pierre Grenand and Guillaume Odonne
Guillaume Odonne, Damien Davy and Pierre Grenand
Bruna Cigaran da Rocha and Vinicius Eduardo Honorato de Oliveira
William Bale and Meredith Dudley
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Andr Braga Junqueira
Guide
The initiative for this book came from W. Bale, who suggested it in November 2017 during a field mission at the Nouragues Research Station, French Guiana, in the framework of the LongTIme project (Long-term impact of ancient Amer-indian settlements on Guianan forests). This three-year project led by the editors involved several contributors to this book, either as participants (N. Antonoff, S. Bodin, J. Brancier, L. Bremond, L. Brousseau, D. Davy, T. Decans, J. Engel, N. Gazal, E. Lapied, F. Lvque, S. Manzi, C. Martin, M. Mestre, M. Roy, M. van den Bel and G. Vincent) or as members of its Scientific Advisory Board (W. Bale, P. Grenand, D. McKey and S. Rostain). LongTIme was a structuring project of the
