Historical ecology as a specialization within archaeology, cultural anthropology, and related fields, has been in a process of re-articulating and extending a set of concerns with deep roots in North American and especially Americanist anthropology. The classic cultural ecology of the 1950s and 1960s assumed a feedback relationship between human groups and the environment at the landscape level and beyond. Going further back, this links with the original purpose of Franz Boas’s fieldwork on Baffin Island: to examine the myriad ways in which the environment shaped culture, and in which humans perceived, utilized, and altered the environment. The resurgence of ecological concerns in the 1990s and 2000s led by anthropologists such as William Balée and Carole Crumley was timely, coming on the heels of the “spatial turn” in cultural anthropology in the early 1990s and coinciding with awareness of global warming and what would come to be called the Anthropocene. One can only imagine how archaeologists of the future (assuming they exist!) will read the historical ecology of our era, but certainly present-day archaeologists are contributing greatly to our understanding of the historical ecology of many world regions, none more so than Amazonia. Christian Isendahl discusses several volumes of work in historical ecology of the past decade, and traces development of certain themes such as sustainability, around which, Isendahl argues, the field has coalesced. It is of historical interest to note that this set of books, the most recent of which was published in 2013, makes no mention of the Anthropocene, which was to become the central concept in American anthropology at the 2014 American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, DC.

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作为考古学，文化人类学及相关领域的专业化，历史生态学一直在重新阐明和扩展一系列根深蒂固的问题，这些问题源于北美，尤其是美国人类学。1950年代和1960年代的经典文化生态学假设人类群体与景观以及其他方面的环境之间存在反馈关系。再往前看，这与弗朗兹·博阿斯（Franz Boas）在巴芬岛（Baffin Island）上进行野外调查的初衷有关：研究环境塑造文化的多种方式，以及人类感知，利用和改变环境的方式。在1990年代和2000年代，WilliamBalée和Carole Crumley等人类学家重新提出了对生态问题的关注，在1990年代初文化人类学的“空间转向”之后，人们对全球变暖的认识与人类世代相吻合。人们只能想象未来的考古学家（假设他们存在！）将如何阅读我们时代的历史生态学，但是，如今的考古学家无疑为我们对许多世界地区的历史生态学的理解做出了巨大贡献，亚马逊河就是这样。 。克里斯蒂安•伊森达尔（Christian Isendahl）讨论了过去十年历史生态学中的几篇著作，并追溯了某些主题的发展，例如可持续性，伊森达尔（Isendahl）认为，围绕这一主题，该领域已经融合。值得一提的是，从历史上讲，这套书籍（最近出版于2013年）没有提及人类世，