Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the contine...

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Other Authors: Pearce, Adrian J. (Editor), Beresford-Jones, David G. (Editor), Heggarty, Paul (Editor)
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Published: London UCL Press 2020
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