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| Title Statement | Forgotten landscapes: how Native Americans created pre-Columbian North America and what we can learn from it / Stanley A. Rice. |
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| Author | Rice, Stanley A., 1957- |
| Publication | Essex, CT: Prometheus Books,[2025]©2025 |
| Extent of Item | v, 240 pages |
| ISBN | 9781493088669 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07788285 |
| Contents | Introduction : the view from Mantle Rock --Welcome to America : before 1492 --Forgotten fires : how Natives used fire to manage the landscape --Masters of the hunt : how Native hunting and fishing controlled animal populations --Farm or forest? : agriculture in prehistoric America --The blessings of water : irrigation in prehistoric America --Little paradises : orchards in prehistoric Native America --European diseases : the beginning of the end of Native America --A toxic paradise : the San Joaquin Valley as the ultimate white monoculture dream --Toward a healthier world, with a little help from your local Natives --Epilogue : what we have lost, and what we can regain. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "In this fascinating and overdue book, author Stanley A. Rice shows readers the pre-Columbian landscape of America that has been largely forgotten"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Indigenous peoples--Agriculture--North America |
| Indigenous peoples--Antiquities--North America | |
| Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--North America | |
| Landscape ecology--North America | |
| Social archaeology--North America | |
| Traditional ecological knowledge--North America | |
