Imperfect Balance

List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Foreword, by William Denevan 1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings, by David L. Lentz 2. Climate Changes in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture, by David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis 3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America, by Andrew M. Greller 4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas, by David L. Lentz 5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico, by Emily McClung de Tapia 6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning, by Charles S. Spencer 7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes, by Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach 8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests, by Charles Peters 9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley, by Gayle J. Fritz 10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment, by Suzanne Fish 11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes, by James Luteyn and Steven Churchill 12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape, by Clark L. Erickson 13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History, by Terence N. D'Altroy 14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America -- An Overview, by Douglas Daly and John Mitchell 15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat, by Anna C. Roosevelt Summary and Conclusions Index