People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America by Paul E. Minnis PDF
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the zorza (Clay-colored Robin). Chapter five brings up the capacity in which large landowners I conservationists, contrary to general expectation. Chapter six presents the other side of chapter IS and and where highlighting the rural landscape of small domestic individual villages farmers, , iiversity highest and may be most easily conserved. Chapter seven exposes Honduras as a coun- is many and where vhere the majority of soil cover is not rainforest, species requiring the attention mon- with, such as those that are nocturnal. Chapter eight a case study centered about the is t rainforest of Montafia de Babilonia. In chapter nine Bonta presents several proposals regarding Honduran :onservation geography of avifauna, with the intent for broader applications. Perhaps the message which Bonta intends be taken home that the destruction in the is tropics not accomplished with clear and purposeful intent, but rather as a side effect of certain is D-economic factors. Therefore, to lessen its impact, we must take a "geographical approach to ;ervation that cuts across artificial boundaries separating what is 'natural' from what is 'cul- r in the landscape" While the theme of conservation geography implied throughout the (p.3). is "cultural landscape.'-Tia Paul Minnis (Ed). 2003. People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America. E. (ISBN 1-58834-133-X, pbk.). Smithsonian Institution Press, 750 Ninth Street DC NW, Washington, 20560-0950, 202-275-2300, Suite 4300, U.S.A. (Orders: http://www.sipress.si.edu/). $34.95, 423 25 45 tables, 6" x 9". pp., figs., terms. Following this are chapters that cone much which work has been done in the pas tion, anthropogenic ecology, and regional c snote Minn aains, this itirely the case. In the foreword nical rema ns, sue h things as ancient field distrib tiona thnobc butinj avmg ly well alth ough, worked with bota nists bu notbL ump general various evidences to would be nadeqv ate and demand further explana ion. pnstngly well and holds interesting and significant nforn- derived from a play of only 20 crops, whereas paleo is of thousands of crops cultivated in the past.-Tian IS TX 509 Pecan Fort Worth. 76102-4060, U.SAjfra St. IS,
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