The Lowland Maya area : three millennia at the human-wildland interface
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The Lowland Maya area : three millennia at the human-wildland interface
Food Products Press, c2003
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
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注記
"This is the second symposium that the University of California at Riverside has organized on the Maya."--P. 3
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What can we learn from the people of the Maya Lowlands?
Integrating history, biodiversity, ethnobotany, geology, ecology, archaeology, anthropology, and other disciplines, The Lowland Maya Area is a valuable guide to the fascinating relationship between man and his environment in the Yucatan peninsula. This book covers virtually every aspect of the biology and ecology of the Maya Lowlands and the many ways that human beings have interacted with their surroundings in that area for the last three thousand years. You'll learn about newly discovered archaeological evidence of wetland use; the domestication and use of cacao and henequen plants; a biodiversity assessment of a select group of plants, animals, and microorganisms; the area's forgotten cotton, indigo, and wax industries; the ecological history of the Yucatan Peninsula; and much more. This comprehensive book will open your eyes to all that we can learn from the Maya people, who continue to live on their native lands, integrating modern life with their old ways and teaching valuable lessons about human dependence on and management of environmental resources.
The Lowland Maya Area explores:
the impact of hurricanes and fire on local environments
historic and modern Maya concepts of forests
the geologic history of the Yucatan
challenges to preserving Maya architecture
newly-discovered evidence of fertilizer use among the ancient Maya
cooperation between locals and researchers that fosters greater knowledge on both sides
recommendations to help safeguard the future
The Lowland Maya Area is an ideal single source for reliable information on the many ecological and social issues of this dynamic area. Providing you with the results of the most recent research into many diverse fields, including traditional ecological knowledge, the difficult transition to capitalism, agave production, and the diversity of insect species, this book will be a valuable addition to your collection.
As the editors of The Lowland Maya Area say in their concluding chapter: If we are to gain global perspective from the changing Maya world, it is that understanding space and time is absolutely critical to human persistence. Understanding how the Maya have interacted with their environment for thousands of years while maintaining biodiversity will help us understand how we too can work for sustainable development in our own environments.
目次
About the Editors , Contributors , Foreword , Acknowledgments , Part I: Introduction , Chapter 1. Research Challenges for the Lowland Maya Area: An Introduction , Part II: The Biological and Physical Environment , Chapter 2. The Changing Global Environment and the Lowland Maya: Past Patterns and Current Dynamics , Introduction , Past Environments and the Yucatan Peninsula , The El Eden Tropical Seasonal Forest: Current Ecosystem Structure , Ecosystem Dynamics: Current versus Past , Current and Projected Environmental Change and the Yucatan Peninsula , Conclusion , Chapter 3. In the Beginning: Early Events in the Development of Mesoamerica and the Lowland Maya Area , Introduction , Geologic History , Climatic History , Vegetational History , Conclusion , Chapter 4. Paleolimnological Approaches for Inferring Past Climate Change in the Maya Region: Recent Advances and Methodological Limitations , Introduction , Theoretical Basis for Isotope-Based Paleoclimate Studies , Choosing a Study Site , Complementary Sediment Proxies , Results and Discussion , Chapter 5. Rhythms of Precipitation in the Yucatan Peninsula , Introduction , Experimental Details , Normal Conditions for the Yucatan Peninsula , Yucatan in the Context of SPI-12 of All Mexico , Periodicity , Typical Patterns , Conclusion , Chapter 6. Structure and Diversity of the Forests at the El Eden Ecological Reserve , Introduction , Study Area , Methods and Materials , Results , Discussion , Chapter 7. Hydrogeology of the Yucatan Peninsula , General Geology of the Northern Yucatan Peninsula , Soils , Regional Hydroge
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