Historical Archaeology and Environment

Marcos André Torres de Souza is a professor of the graduate program in Archaeology at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professor Souza has a PhD in Anthropology from the Syracuse University, USA, and is an expert in Historical Archaeology, conducting research projects in historical sites linked to the African Diaspora in Brazil and the contact period. Diogo Menezes Costa is a professor of the graduate program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. Professor Costa has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, and is the leader of the Research Group in Historical Archaeology of Amazon. He is an expert in Historical and Environmental Archaeology and has conducted research projects in these fields in different sites in northern and central Brazil.

Chapter 1.Introduction: Historical Archaeology and environment.- Part I: Conceptual frameworks.- Chapter 2.More than just a record: active ecological effects of archaeological strata.- Chapter 3. The Archaeology of Climate Change: Is Unbridled Commodity Production Sustainable?.- Part II: Studies on environmental historical archaeology.- Chapter 4.Eco-historical archaeology in the Brazilian Amazon: material, natural and cultural western transformations.- Chapter 5.Indigenous charcoal production and Spanish metal mining enterprises: Historical Archaeology of extractive activities and ecological degradation in central and northern Mexico.- Chapter 6.Towards an archaeology of extensive pastoralism in the Great Artesian basin in Australia.- Chapter 7.The fishermen's disappearance: an archaeology of cruel modernity in São Paulo city.- Chapter 8. Entangled relations: the expansion of a colonial frontier in Central Brazil, eighteenth-century.- Chapter 9. The Deep History of the Ficus Thonningii Bl. in Central Africa: Ontology, Settlement and Environment among Lower Congo Peoples (Early times to 500 B.C.E.).- Chapter 10. The Evolution of Recent Multidisciplinary Deep-Water Archaeological and Biological Research on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.- Part III.Historical Archaeology and the Anthropocene.- Chapter 11. Archaeology and the Anthropocene in the Study of Settler Australia.- Chapter 12.The Anthropocene in Antarctica: Considering "fixed" and "more fluid" perspectives of analysis.