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Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-pacific Region - Couverture rigide

Carson, Mike T.

 
9783319313993: Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-pacific Region
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ISBN 10 : 3319313991 ISBN 13 : 9783319313993
Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016

Synopsis

Landscapes have been fundamental to the human experience world-wide and throughout time, yet how did we as human beings evolve or co-evolve with our landscapes? By answering this question, we can understand our place in the complex, ever-changing world that we inhabit.

This book guides readers on a journey through the concurrent processes of change in an integrated natural-cultural history of a landscape. While outlining the general principles for global application, a richly illustrated case is offered through the Mariana Islands in the northwest tropical Pacific and furthermore situated in a larger Asia-Pacific context for a full comprehension of landscape evolution at variable scales. The author examines what happened during the first time when human beings encountered the world's Remote Oceanic environment in the Mariana Islands about 3500 years ago, followed by a continuous sequence of changing sea level, climate, water resources, forest composition, human population growth, and social dynamics. This book provides a high-resolution and long-term view of the complexities of landscape evolution that affect all of us today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mike T. Carson (Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2002) investigates archaeological and palaeo-landscapes throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He currently is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), University of Guam, and he is co-editor of Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, published by University of Hawaii Press.

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Éditeur
Springer International Publishing AG
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3319313991
ISBN 13 
9783319313993
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
320
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9783319810317: Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3319810316 ISBN 13 :  9783319810317
Editeur : Springer, 2018
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