Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas

Foreword

William Balee

Introduction

James Andrew Whitaker, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, and Guillaume Odonne

1 "Open the Floodgates of Heaven": Amazonian Climate Change in Pre-Columbian Times

Stephen Rostain and Jonas Gregorio da Souza

2 The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource

Anabel Ford

3 Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology

Torben Rick, Gabriel Sanchez, and Shannon Tushingham

4 Indigenous People Prevented Climate-Induced Ecological Change for Millennia: Evidence from the Prairie Peninsula and Fire-Loving Forests of Eastern North America

Natalie G. Mueller

5 Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests

Christopher I. Roos, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Christopher H. Guiterman

6 Different Relational Models have Shaped the Biocultural Conservation over Time of Araucaria araucana Forests and Their People

Ana H. Ladio and Mauricio Sedrez dos Reis

7 Ancient and Ongoing Land-Use as Climate Change Mitigation in Ts'msyen, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv Homelands

Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Sara Wickham, and Kalina Hunter

8 Clam Gardens Across Generations and Places Support Social-Ecological Resilience to Global Change

Dana Lepofsky and Anne Salomon

9 Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom: Archaeological Perspectives of Caribbean Coastal Food and Habitat Security during Times of Climate Crises

Isabel Rivera-Collazo

10 Whose Climate Change Is It? A Thousand-Year Example of Kali'na Responses to Shifting Coastal Landscapes in the Lower Maroni River

Marquisar Jean-Jacques, Marianne Palisse, Martijn Van Den Bel, Antoine Gardel, and Edward Anthony

11 Long-Term Ecological and Climate Changes through Amazonian Indigenous Oral Histories

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares, and Francisco Apurina

12 Owning Climate Change among the Makushi and Akawaio

James Andrew Whitaker

Postface

Victoria Reyes-Garcia and Andre Braga Junqueira