Island Historical Ecology

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Island Historical Ecology is written by Peter E. Siegel and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785337645 (ISBN 10) and 9781785337642 (ISBN 13).

In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology.