Tropical Forests in Human Prehistory, History, and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780198818496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str.

Patrick Roberts

Opis

This book brings together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale. 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.

Recenzje

Overall, the book is well written, generously illustrated and provides an excellent introduction to the long-term human occupation of tropical rainforests. Tim Denham, The Australian National University, Antiquity

O autorze

Patrick Roberts is Group Leader of the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He has pioneered the use of stable isotope analysis of human fossils for reconstructing the tropical forest adaptations of our species during its dispersal beyond Africa. Patrick has a broader interest in studying the time-depth of human impacts on tropical forests - now the most threatened terrestrial ecosystems after the polar ice-caps - and how this has varied across space and time. He is committed to current UNESCO initiatives that bring together archaeologists and anthropologists to discuss potential solutions for the conservation of ecological and cultural heritage in tropical forests today.