1. Posey, D. & Balée, W. (eds) Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies (Advances in Economic Botany Vol. 7, New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, 1989).
2. Balée, W. (ed.) Advances in Historical Ecology (Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1998).
3. Stahl, P. W. Holocene biodiversity: An archaeological perspective from the Americas. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 25, 105–126 (1996).
4. Denevan, W. M. The pristine myth: The landscape of the Americas in 1492. Ann. Ass. Am. Geog. 82, 369–385 (1992).
5. Piperno, D. & Pearsall, D. Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics (Academic, San Diego, 1998).