Title Tropical forests in human prehistory, history, and modernity / Patrick Roberts

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) Contents Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity -- Tropical forests : natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaptation and negotiation -- Cradle under the canopy : the forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo -- Into the woods : early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonization -- Tropical bounties ; the emergence of tropical forest agricultures -- 'Ruins' of the forest : social complexity and tropical cities -- The last in a long line : historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters -- The tropical 'Anthropocene' : a modern battleground or a long-term framework? -- Forests of plenty? Comparisons and conclusions Summary This text 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, the book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2019 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on print version record Subject Human ecology -- Tropics Prehistoric peoples -- Tropics Rain forests. Forests and forestry -- Tropics -- History Ethnology -- Tropics rainforests. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social. Forests and forestry Prehistoric peoples SUBJECT Tropics -- History Subject Tropics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191917264 0191917265 9780192550552 0192550551

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