Preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Section 1: Archaeology and Environment
1: Matthew Davies: Environment in North American and European
archaeology
2: Olena Symyntna: Environment in Soviet and post-Soviet
Archaeology
Section 2: Environment as Artefact
3: William Balée: Indigeneity of Past Landscape Transformations of
the Tropics
4: Matthew Davies: Forced Moves or just Good Moves? Rethinking
environmental decision making among East African intensive
cultivators
5: Dánae Fiore, Angélica Tivoli, Atilio Francisco Zangrando: Is the
Environment Good to Eat or Good to Paint? Faunal consumption and
avoidance among hunter-gatherer-fishers in the Beagle Channel
Region (Tierra del Fuego, South America)
6: Alexandre Chevalier: From Ecological Constraints To Cultural
Identities: Pre-Columbian attitudes toward food
7: Fiona Dyason: Burning the Bush: the development of Australia s
Southwest Botanical Province
Section 3: Environmental narratives and applied archaeology
8: Christian Isendahl, Walter Sánchez, Sergio Calla, Marco Irahola,
Dagner Salvatierra and Marcelo Ticona: Archaeology's Potential to
Contribute to Pools of Agronomic Knowledge: a case of applied
agro-achaeology in the Bolivian Yungas
9: Ann Kendall: Applied Archaeology in the Andes: the contribution
of pre-Hispanic agricultural terracing to environmental and rural
development strategies
10: Daryl Stump: The role of Agricultural and Environmental History
in East African Developmental Discourse
11: Kristin Armstrong Oma: Past and Present Farming: changes in
terms of engagement
Section 4: Environment, disaster, and memory
12: Karen Holmberg: An Inheritance of Loss: Archaeology's
imagination of disaster
13: Katherine Leckie: Nature, Identity, and Disaster: prehistoric
lake dwelling in Central Europe.
14: Peter Rudiak-Gould: Memories and Expectations of Environmental
Disaster: some lessons from the Marshall Islands
15: David G. Anderson, Kirk A. Maasch, and Daniel H. Sandweiss:
Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: lessons from the past for the
future
Section 5: New Directions
16: James Fairhead: Archaeology and Environmental Anthropology:
collaborations in historical and political ecology
17: Carole L. Crumley: The Archaeology of Global Environment
Change
18: Chris Gosden: Humanised Environments
Bibliography
Index
Matthew Davies is currently Fellow in East African Archaeology at
the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and the McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. He directs
archaeological and ethnographic research projects in Kenya, Uganda,
and the Southern Sudan. His primary interests lie in long-term
human relations, especially environmental decision making and
related socio-cultural institutions. Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori is a
senior
archaeologist based at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, with
extensive fieldwork experience in the region. Her principal
interests lie in the relationship between material culture,
economy/environment and identity, and how received concepts played
into colonial and present day economic/environmental policies in
Eastern Africa.
a forward-thinking book that looks to the past to try to understand
the future relationship betwteen humans and the environment.
*Polly Heffer, Current World Archaeology*
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