Traditional arid lands agriculture : understanding the past for the future / edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingram, Scott E., editor.

Hunt, Robert C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arid regions agriculture--Southwest, New.

Arid regions agriculture.

Arid regions agriculture--Mexico, North.

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Southwest, New.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Mexico, North.

North Mexico.

New Southwest.

Physical Description:

vi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmcm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The manuscript is an edited volume which consists of twelve chapters by multiple scholars of arid lands agriculture in the American Southwest and Northwest Mexico. Its goal is to inspire further research and advance the current understanding of traditional agriculture in arid lands, in both the past and the present"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Traditional arid lands agriculture : known unknowns / Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt

The archaeology and agronomy of ancient maize (Zea mays L.) / Karen R. Adams

Agricultural soils of the prehistoric Southwest : known unknowns / Jon Sandor and Jeff Homburg

Defining the environmental context of indigenous agriculture in the Southwest : what we don't know about mid-to-late Holocene climate change and floodplain dynamics / Gary Huckleberry

Human vulnerability to dry periods / Scott E. Ingram

Estimates of prehistoric irrigated field crop productivity : Sonoran Desert / Robert C. Hunt

The impact of flooding on Hohokam canal irrigation agriculture / Kyle Woodson

Water fight : archaeology, litigation, and the assessment of pre-contact canal irrigation technologies in northern Rio Grande region / Mike Adler

Rainfed farming and settlement aggregation : reflections from Chihuahua, Mexico / Robert J. Hard, William L. Merrill, A. C. Macwilliams, John R. Roney, Jacob C. Freeman, and Karen R. Adams

The archaeology of ruderal agriculture / Alan P. Sullivan III

Understanding the agricultural consequences of aggregation / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish

Pre-contact agriculture in northern New Mexico / Richard I. Ford and Roxanne Swentzell

What more we need know about "Southwest" agriculture / Paul E. Minnis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816531295

0816531293

OCLC:

897436841