Julio Mercader (ed.). Under the canopy: the archaeology of tropical rain forests.

Julio Mercader (ed.). Under the canopy: the archaeology of tropical rain forests. x+322 pages, 81 figures, 24 tables. 2003. New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, CanadaNew Brunswick,province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. (NJ):Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in Piscataway, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University. The press was founded in 1936, and since that time has grown in size and in the scope of its publishing program. ; 0-8135-3142-X hardback $60. PROF. MERCADER introduces three groups of chapters intended to showthat rain forests were colonised early. In both his introduction and apaper (with R. Marti) on Atlantic Central Africa, he complains thatarchaeological preconceptions about unlikelihood of early occupationhinder adequate appraisal of the available evidence, an argumentrepeated by J. Casey for West Africa; and, for the Ituri Forest, heseeks to show that there were Pleistocene precedents for Pygmysubsistence techniques. There follow reviews of evidence from Malaya andJava and an argument for potential in northern Queensland. The lastgroup is an American foursome: A. Ranere & R. Cooke on Clovishunters in Central America; W. Barse on environment and occupationsalong the middle Orinoco; S. Mora MORA, In civil law. This term, in mora, is used to denote that a party to a contract, who is obliged to do anything, has neglected to perform it, and is in default. Story on Bailm. Sec. 123, 259; Jones on Bailm. 70; Poth. Pret a Usage, c. 2, Sec. 2, art. 2, n. & C. Gnecco on their recentevidence for Pleistocene or early Holocene sites in southern Colombia;and B. Meggers & E. Miller on environments and archaeology inAmazonia.