Drained field agriculture in Central and South America / edited by J.P. Darch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darch, J. P.

Series:

Proceedings (International Congress of Americanists (44th : 1982 : Manchester))

BAR international series ; 189.

Proceedings

BAR. International series ; 189

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians--Irrigation.

Indians.

Agriculture.

Drainage.

Central America.

South America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford : B.A.R., 1983.

Language Note:

English text with one chapter in Spanish.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Contents:

Drained fields in the Americas: an introduction / J.P. Darch

Constructional inputs for major agrosystems of the ancient Maya / B.L. Turner II

Modelling prehispanic hydroagriculture on levee backslopes in northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alfred H. Siemens

So green and like a garden: intensive agriculture in ancient Veracruz / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson

Ancient raised field agriculture in the Maya lowlands of southeastern Mexico / Stephen R. Gliessman, B.L. Turner II, F.J. Rosado May and M.F. Amador

Ancient Maya land-use and potential agricultural productivity at Lamanai, Belize / J.D.H. Lambert and J.T. Arnason

Raised field detection at Cerros, northern Belize / Vernon Scarborough

Evolucion historica del repertorio de plantas cultivadas en las chinampas de la Cuenca de Mexico / Teresa Rojas Rabiela

Preliminary results of the Samborondon Raised Field Project, Guayas Basin, Ecuador / William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson

Pattern analysis of prehispanic raised fields of Lake Titicaca, Peru / Thomas J. Lennon

Aspects of the origin, morphology and function of ridged fields in the Quito altiplano, Ecuador / Gregory Knapp and Roy Ryder

Prehistoric intensive agriculture: preliminary notes on river canalization in the sacred valley of the Incas / Ian S. Farrington

Raised field complexes and associated settlements in the coastal plain of western Suriname / A.H. Versteeg

Drained field agriculture and soil fertility / Richard T. Smith.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

English text with one chapter in Spanish.

Print version record.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2016.

Other Format:

Print version: Drained field agriculture in Central and South America.

ISBN:

9781407334097

1407334093

OCLC:

948275733

Publisher Number:

S189 BAR Publishing

Access Restriction:

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