Comments on: Book review – Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity

By: Book review – Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:16:16 +0000

[…] with a new suite of plants and animals becoming dependent on our role in ecosystems (think of the archaeological evidence for forest gardens). The displacement of traditional societies through colonialism has disrupted such relationships, […]

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By: Book review – The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:29:49 +0000

[…] could be called jungle gardens that Europeans did not even recognize for what they were, leading to the myth of jungles as pristine areas untouched by human hands. In the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, people practised the labour-light variant of flood-retreat […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:23 +0000

[…] and Modernity with Oxford University Press. A rather expensive book that is dense and scholarly, I was nevertheless very impressed with it. Naturally, the first question is whether Jungle rehashes that book for a general audience. It […]

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By: Book review – The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:22:50 +0000

[…] before industrial times our impact was enormous” (p. 258). “Virgin” rainforest has long been under cultivation and there is a clearly documented decrease in both forest cover and species diversity with time, […]

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By: Book review – Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:39:18 +0000

[…] of the Late-Bronze Age civilizations in the 12th century BCE. The myth of virgin rainforests and the long history of agriculture practised in the jungle. The microbiological onslaught that accompanied the Columbian exchange when Christopher Columbus […]

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By: Book review – Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:10:20 +0000

[…] of them as peaceful and non-violent, or as the “first environmentalists” living in pristine rainforests that doubled up as mother nature’s pharmacy. Did our ancestors have it better? Some say yes, […]

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By: Book review – Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:23:56 +0000

[…] first touched on this topic in my review of Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity, which mentioned the use of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to reveal the scope of jungle […]

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