Historical ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities, and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth's biophysical system with the history of humanity.

Foreword; Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes: Introductory Perspectives; SECTION ONE: Ideologies and Applications of Historical Ecology and Heterarchy; Chapter 1: Dialectic in Historical Ecology; Chapter 2: Historical Ecology and Longitudinal Research Strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland; Chapter 3: Gender, Feminism, and Heterarchy; Chapter 4: 'Can you hear me now?': Heterarchy as an Instrument and Outcome of Collective Action in Iron Age and Medieval Europe; SECTION TWO: Identifying Resilience; Chapter 5: Reconstructing African Landscape Historical Ecologies: An Integrative Approach for Managing Biocultural Heritage; Chapter 6: Resilience of Agrarian Land Use Practices in Burgundy, France: Evolving Approaches to Historical Ecology; Chapter 7: Resilience, Heterarchy, and the Native American Cultural Landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta; SECTION THREE: Social, Settlement and Territorial Dynamics of the European Iron Age; Chapter 8: Mapping British and Irish Hillforts; Chapter 9: Humanizing the Western Cantabrian Mountains in Northwestern Iberia: a Diachronic Perspective on the Exploitation of the Uplands during Late Prehistory; Chapter 10: The End of Iron Age Societies in Northwestern Iberia: Egalitarianism, Heterarchy and Hierarchy in Contexts of Interaction; Chapter 11: Iron Age Societies at Work: Towns, Kinship and Territory in Historical Analogy; SECTION FOUR: Ritual Landscapes and Monumentality; Chapter 12: Empires of Stone, Politics of Shadow: The Historical Ecology and Political Economy of Mortuary Monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD); Chapter 13: A Landscape of Ancestors-Looking Back and Thinking Forward; Chapter 14: Civic-Ceremonial Transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Chapter 15: Sacred Wells across the Longue Durée; Afterword: Integrating Time and Space in Dynamic Systems