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ISLANDS IN THE RAINFOREST

NEW FRONTIERS IN HISTORICAL ECOLOGY

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 the UNESCO. The 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.

General Editors
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Peter Brosius, University of Georgia
Lyle Campbell, University of Utah
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Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen
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Series Titles
Vol. 1: Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees: State, Market, and Landscape, Ismael Vaccaro and Oriol Beltran, eds.

Vol. 2: The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild Primate Malarias, Loretta A. Cormier

Vol. 3: Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia: Historical Ecology of Social Complexity, Denise P. Schaan

Vol. 4: Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia, Stphen Rostain

ISLANDS IN THE RAINFOREST

Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia

Stphen Rostain

Translated by Michelle Eliott

First published in 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Rostain, Stphen,
Islands in the rainforest : landscape management in pre-Columbian Amazonia / Stphen Rostain ; translation by Michelle Eliott.
p. cm. (New frontiers in historical ecology Vol. 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59874-634-1 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59874-636-5
ISBN 978-1-61132-687-1
1. Indians of South AmericaAgricultureFrench Guiana. 2. Indians of South AmericaLand tenureFrench Guiana. 3. Raised field agricultureFrench GuianaHistory. 4. Indigenous peoplesEcologyFrench Guiana. I. Eliott, Michelle. II. Title.
F2460.2.A37R68 2012
980.01dc23
2012026551

Cover design by Piper Wallis
Cover photo by Stphen Rostain

ISBN 978-1-59874-634-1 hardback

To Belm,
and to the memories of James Petersen, a wonderful companion, an admirable professor, and an ideal colleague; and Claude Muszynski-Delpuech, a partner in Caribbean archaeology who is dearly missed.

CONTENTS

My research has always been based on strong collaborations and an interdisciplinary perspective, and so the success of this work is due to the contributions of a number of people and institutions over the last 10 years, to whom I am grateful:

The participants of the Action Collective de Recherche (ACR) Prehistory of the West Coast of Guiana (20032007).

The participants of the Earthmovers consortium, who provided a great deal of indispensible data during the Archaeology and ecology of the coastal savannas of Guiana project (20072011). I am particularly grateful to Laure Dodat of the Unit Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 8906 for her help in preparing the maps.

Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University College London, for his photographs.

Arie Boomert, emeritus professor at the University of Leiden, for providing photographs and documents.

Frans Bubberman, forester in Suriname, for providing photographs and documents.

Grard Collomb, researcher at Laboratoire dAnthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales (LAIOS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, for providing useful documents.

Philippe Descola, director of the Laboratoire dAnthropologie Sociale (LAS) and professor at the College of France (Paris), for his long-standing support.

milie Dotte, doctor of archaeology and archaeobotanist at the University of Paris 1 and the Australian National University, for her photographs.

Elisabeth Ewstifeieff for always providing a warm welcome at Montjoly, French Guiana.

Serge Guiraud for his photographs.

Michael Heckenberger, associate professor at the University of Florida, for his documents.

Doyle McKey, professor at the University of Montpellier 2 and member of the Centre dEcologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive (CEFE) (UMR 5175), and a brilliant colleague, for initiating a wonderful project and for all of his advice. He is a matre-duvre, admirable not only in the domain of interdisciplinary science, but also in the communal dynamics of teamwork. His comments on the fieldwork and this manuscript were indispensable.

Jean-Pierre Montoroi, researcher at the Institut de Recherche et de Dveloppement (IRD), for his photographs.

Eduardo Ges Neves, professor at the University of So Paulo, Brazil, for his documents and his friendship.

Jos Oliver, reader at the Institute of Archaeology of London, for sending photographs.

Alain Pav, professor at the University of Lyon 1, for his support of the Archaeology and Ecology of the Coastal Savannas of Guiana project.

Martti Prssinen, professor at the University of Helsinki, for his photographs.

Francisco Valdez, researcher at the IRD, for his photographs.

John H. Walker, assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, for his photographs.

The Centre Spatial Guyanais, and particularly Sandrine Richard and Philippe Delaunay, for authorizing and facilitating the work carried out within the secure zone

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