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Author Asouti, Eleni

Title Trees and woodlands of south India : archaeological perspectives / Eleni Asouti, Dorian Q Fuller
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications
University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Producing South Indian Landscapes: The Intersection of Climate, Landforms, Economies, and Environmental History; 2. Indian Forest Ecology and the Politics of Landscape Management; 3. Background to Vegetation History: Climate, Geology, and Cultural History; 4. South Indian Woodland Vegetation: Its Composition, Structure, and Dynamics; 5. An Abridged Environmental History of South India; 6. Autecology and Ethnobotany of South Indian Trees and Shrubs
Summary This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological on the subcontinent while detailing the history of long-term changes in the tree and shrub vegetation of the Indian peninsula that have resulted from climate change and the impact of human activities on the landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Forest plants -- India
Plant remains (Archaeology) -- India
Landscape archaeology -- India
Forest archaeology -- India
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
Antiquities
Forest archaeology
Forest plants
Landscape archaeology
Plant remains (Archaeology)
SUBJECT India -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064871
Subject India
Form Electronic book
Author Fuller, Dorian Q
LC no. 2007018758
ISBN 9781598747461
1598747460