Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Understanding the Past for the Future

ISBN-13: 9780816542444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str.

Scott E. Ingram; Robert C. Hunt

Spis treści

• Introduction. Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Known Unknowns, Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt
• 1. The Archaeology and Agronomy of Ancient Maize (Zea mays L.), Karen R. Adams
• 2. Agricultural Soils of the Prehistoric Southwest: Known Unknowns, Jonathan Sandor and Jeffrey A. Homburg
• 3. Defining the Environmental Context of Indigenous Agriculture in the Southwest: What We Don't Know about Middle to Late Holocene Climate Change and Floodplain Dynamics, Gary Huckleberry
• 4. Human Vulnerability to Dry Periods, Scott E. Ingram
• 5. Estimates of Prehistoric Irrigated Field Crop Productivity: Sonoran Desert, Robert C. Hunt
• 6. The Impact of Flooding on Hohokam Canal Irrigation Agriculture, Kyle Woodson
• 7. Water Fight: Archaeology, Litigation, and the Assessment of Precontact Canal Irrigation Technologies in the Northern Rio Grande Region, Michael Adler
• 8. Rain-Fed 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
• 9. The Archaeology of Ruderal Agriculture, Alan P. Sullivan III
• 10. Understanding the Agricultural Consequences of Aggregation, Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
• 11. Precontact Agriculture in Northern New Mexico, Richard I. Ford and Roxanne Swentzell
• 12. What More We Need to Know about 'Southwestern' Agriculture, Paul E. Minnis
• Contributors
• Index