Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Archaeological survey and site discovery in the forested neotropics
- 2 The archaeology of community organization in the tropical lowlands: a case study from Puerto Rico
- 3 Archaeological methods for the study of ancient landscapes of the Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon
- 4 Searching for environmental stress: climatic and anthropogenic influences on the landscape of Colombia
- 5 “Doing” paleoethnobotany in the tropical lowlands: adaptation and innovation in methodology
- 6 Plant microfossils and their application in the New World tropics
- 7 Differential preservation histories affecting the mammalian zooarchaeological record from the forested neotropical lowlands
- 8 Biological research with archaeologically recovered human remains from Ecuador: methodological issues
- 9 Interpreting dietary maize from bone stable isotopes in the American tropics: the state of the art
- 10 From potsherds to pots: a first step in constructing cultural context from tropical forest archaeology
- 11 Returning to Pueblo Viejo: history and archaeology of the Chachi (Ecuador)
- References
- Index
List of contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Archaeological survey and site discovery in the forested neotropics
- 2 The archaeology of community organization in the tropical lowlands: a case study from Puerto Rico
- 3 Archaeological methods for the study of ancient landscapes of the Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon
- 4 Searching for environmental stress: climatic and anthropogenic influences on the landscape of Colombia
- 5 “Doing” paleoethnobotany in the tropical lowlands: adaptation and innovation in methodology
- 6 Plant microfossils and their application in the New World tropics
- 7 Differential preservation histories affecting the mammalian zooarchaeological record from the forested neotropical lowlands
- 8 Biological research with archaeologically recovered human remains from Ecuador: methodological issues
- 9 Interpreting dietary maize from bone stable isotopes in the American tropics: the state of the art
- 10 From potsherds to pots: a first step in constructing cultural context from tropical forest archaeology
- 11 Returning to Pueblo Viejo: history and archaeology of the Chachi (Ecuador)
- References
- Index
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- Archaeology in the Lowland American TropicsCurrent Analytical Methods and Applications, pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995