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Cruz, Pablo, Thierry Winkel, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Cyril Bernard, Nancy Egan, Didier Swingedouw, and Richard Joffre. "Rain-fed agriculture thrived despite climate degradation in the pre-Hispanic arid Andes." Science Advances 3, no. 12 (December 2017): e1701740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701740.

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López, José Manuel, Gustavo Neme, and Adolfo F. Gil. "Resource intensification and zooarchaeological record in the southern margins of pre-Hispanic Andean agriculture." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, no. 10 (June 19, 2019): 5287–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00857-w.

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McClung de Tapia, Emily, Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Diana Martínez-Yrizar, Carmen Cristina Adriano-Morán, Jorge Cruz-Palma, and Berenice Chaparro-Rueda. "EARLY–MIDDLE FORMATIVE PERIOD SUBSISTENCE IN THE TEOTIHUACAN VALLEY, MEXICO: PRE-HISPANIC PLANT REMAINS FROM ALTICA." Ancient Mesoamerica 30, no. 2 (2019): 339–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536118000548.

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AbstractRecent excavations at the Early–Middle Formative period site of Altica in the southern piedmont of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico, provide evidence for early agriculture and plant use in a rural community in the northern Basin of Mexico. In the Basin of Mexico, settled agricultural communities were present in the southern sector of the region from at least 1200 cal b.c. Initial expansion into the semiarid northern sector of the Basin, however, appears to have taken place towards the end of the Early Formative, during the transition to the Middle Formative when agricultural economies based on maize cultivation became firmly established, setting the scene for increased population density and concomitant social complexity.Altica is currently the only community in the Teotihuacan Valley spanning this transitional period that has survived in the face of intensive changes in land use over the last three millennia. Macro- and microbotanical evidence recovered from radiocarbon-dated excavated contexts at Altica provide evidence for maize cultivation and suggest a subsistence economy in transition, prior to the establishment of intensive dependence upon a broader range of domesticated and cultivated plants.
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Sánchez Verín, Carlos Arturo Giordano. "Agricultura y Alimentación en el México Prehispánico y siglo XVI/Agriculture and Food in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the 16th Century." Geografares, no. 25 (June 27, 2018): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.7147/geo25.17805.

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El inicio de la agricultura en el Continente Americano inició en lo que actualmente se conoce como México. A partir de la gran diversidad geográfica fueron surgiendo diferentes productos y una especialización en su siembra y cuidados, a fin de obtener el mejor rendimiento de los mismos. Fue necesario conocer el clima, las calidades de la tierra y el tiempo a fin de establecer los ciclos agrícolas que dieron como resiltado una gran variedad de plantas que representaron la base de la alimentación de los pueblos mesoamericanos.La llamada Conquista de México trajo consigo nuevos métodos agrícolas, herramientas, animales de tiro y carga y, por supuesto, una gran cantidad de plantas que muy pronto se adaptaron a la geografía de la Nueva España. ABSTRACTThe emergence of agriculture in Mexico was a factor of great relevance, which allowed the development of Mesoamerican cultures more than three thousand years of history. The geographical location of the different ethnic groups that inhabited this region allowed the cultivation of a wide variety of plants, such as corn, beans, pumpkin and chili, basic products in the Mesoamerican diet, as well as other products were developed according to the geographic characteristics and climatological, such as cocoa, from which chocolate is obtained, and even vanilla, being appreciated all over the world. Those original products were mixed with those brought by Europeans in the sixteenth century and this gave rise to Mexican cuisine, which in 2010 was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).Key words: Mesoamerican cultures, Mexican gastronomy, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Siemens, Alfred H., José Angel Soler Graham, Richard Hebda, and Maija Heimo. "“DAMS” ON THE CANDELARIA." Ancient Mesoamerica 13, no. 1 (January 2002): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536102131075.

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Much has been learned from the basin of the Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico: the fabric of a densely settled pre-Historic landscape, including impressive ceremonial centers; the logistics of an ancient entrepôt; the process of exploitation of dyewood and chicle in historic times; as well as the doubtful results of the mid-twentieth-century colonization of an “empty” forested basin. It also yielded the first evidence of more or less intensive pre-Hispanic wetland agriculture in the Maya region and the remains of a profuse network of fluvial transportation from prehistoric times to the present. This article presents recent evidence regarding the management of the river system itself by means of barriers, or “dams,” which facilitated agriculture in the wetlands upstream and extensive canoe travel. These structures seem to be elaborations or imitations of the numerous natural barriers already in the stream. Two models help explain context and function. It has become apparent that the human interventions into the wetlands and the river system are to be seen less as great attainments of civilization than as fairly desperate expedients in the face of climate change.
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Rodríguez-Gallo, Lorena. "Camellones e agricultura pré-hispânica na Sabana de Bogotá-Colômbia: um exemplo de gestão da água em áreas inundáveis." Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, no. 18 (November 26, 2018): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.30893/eq.v0i18.172.

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O objetivo central do presente artigo foi o de analisar o sistema hidráulico de campos elevados de cultivo, camellones, construído ao longo de 2500 anos por populações pré-hispânicos da Sabana de Bogotá, Colômbia. A análise focou a relação estabelecida entre estas populações e a água, de modo a explicar os mecanismos pelos quais essa interação levou à construção duma paisagem agrícola, em particular no que diz respeito ao aproveitamento de recursos e de ocupação do território, durante o período Muisca Tardío (1000-1550 DC). A discussão baseou-se na perspectiva teórica da arqueologia da paisagem e esteve apoiada na metodologia da fotointerpretação bem como na análise de dados arqueológicos, paleo-ambientais e de documentação colonial, conseguindo assim concluir que o sistema de camellones foi o resultado da inter-relação homem-meio, pela qual as populações pré-hispânicas criaram uma forma de viver num meio alagado, fazendo da água o eixo e a rede de ligação entre os canais, plataformas para o cultivo, assentamentos, áreas de caça, de pesca e de mitigação das enchentes. Camellones and pre-hispanic agriculture in the Sabana de Bogotá-Colombia: an example of water management in flooded areasThe central theme of this article is the hydraulic system of raised fields, camellones, built throughout 2,500 years by the Prehispanic populations of the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. The analysis focused on the relationship established between these populations and water, in order to explain the mechanisms by which this interaction led to the construction of an agricultural landscape, in particular regarding the use of resources and the occupation of the territory, during the Late Muisca period (1000-1550 AD). The discussion was based on the theoretical perspective of landscape archeology and was supported by the methodology of photointerpretation as well as the analysis of archaeological, paleoenvironmental and colonial documentation data, thus concluding that the camellones system was the result of interrelationship man-environment, whereby the Pre-Hispanic populations created a way of living in a flooded environment, making water the axis and the network of connection between channels, cultivation platforms, settlements, hunting, fishing and flood mitigation areas . Keywords: Raised-fields, Muiscas, Sabana of Bogotá, prehispanic agriculture, landscape archaeology
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Davis-Salazar, Karla L. "LATE CLASSIC MAYA DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL AT COPAN, HONDURAS." Ancient Mesoamerica 17, no. 1 (January 2006): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536106060019.

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Recent research on pre-Hispanic Maya water management has revealed a diverse array of water-control techniques that were employed in the Maya Lowlands. Since much of this research has focused on water management for consumption and agriculture, other forms of water management—namely, for drainage and flood control—remain poorly understood. This report describes the various water-control techniques dedicated to drainage and flood control at Late Classic Copan, Honduras (a.d.600–900), and explores the social implications of this form of water control. Technological variation in water control throughout urban Copan and between Copan and Palenque, the other major Maya center where drainage and flood control have been investigated, suggests that water management at Copan may have been organized differentially across the urban center.
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Oliveira, Hugo R., Peter Civáň, Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Diane L. Lister, and Martin K. Jones. "Ancient DNA in archaeological wheat grains: preservation conditions and the study of pre-Hispanic agriculture on the island of Gran Canaria (Spain)." Journal of Archaeological Science 39, no. 4 (April 2012): 828–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.008.

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Solleiro-Rebolledo, Elizabeth, Yazmín Rivera-Uria, Bruno Chávez-Vergara, Jaime Diaz-Ortega, Sergey Sedov, Jorge René Alcalá-Martínez, Ofelia Ivette Beltrán-Paz, and Luis Gerardo Jardines-Martínez. "Evolution of the landscape and pedodiversity on volcanic deposits in the south of the Basin of Mexico and its relationship with agricultural activities." REVISTA TERRA LATINOAMERICANA 37, no. 4 (October 28, 2019): 501. http://dx.doi.org/10.28940/terra.v37i4.565.

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In this work, we present the results of a soil study in the Teuhtli volcano, located to the south of the Basin of Mexico with the aim to understand the pedogenetic pathways and the evolution of the landscape dynamics. Two different types of soil prof iles were sampled: in “conserved” areas, with less anthropogenic influence and in sites with intense agriculture activities since pre-Hispanic times. The three conserved prof iles are located in different landscape positions: the Cima prof ile in the summit, the Ladera prof ile in the high slope, and the Yotecón in a lower position of the piedemont. The agriculture prof iles are La Cruz, La Era and El Llano, situated in the foothill. Properties in both kind of soils are similar, however, in agriculture sites, structure (evaluated in macro and microscale) is weaker, total organic carbon content is smaller and bulk density is higher. Both soils show two main pedogenetic processes: andosolization and carbonate formation. Despite the age of the parent material (36 000 years), the Andosol phase has not been lost. This is because of the geomorphological dynamics of the zone, in which the processes of erosion and colluviation promote soil loss, restarting the pedogenetic clock. The detection of lithological discontinuities (by the Ti/Zr ratio) documents these processes. By the other hand, the formation of pedogenic carbonates is governed by the seasonal conditions of drought. The age of these carbonates places their formation in the mid-Holocene, an epoch for which drier conditions are detected in other sites of the Basin of Mexico. The agricultural land use has also promoted morphological, chemical and physical changes in the soils. The continuous tillage of the sites has prevented the soils from developing. This could have a negative effect on the fertility of those soils currently used to sustain the peri-urban agroecosystems of Mexico City.
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Sáez, E., and J. Canziani. "VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN THE SONDONDO VALLEY (PERU)." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIV-M-1-2020 (July 24, 2020): 175–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-1-2020-175-2020.

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Abstract. Sondondo is an inter-Andean valley located between 3,500 and 4,500 meters above sea level. Inhabited, transformed and modelled since ancient times by the local rural communities, an extraordinary cultural landscape has been created through their particular relationship with the environment. Since the pre-Hispanic settlements (Wari 600 AD), through colonial indigenous “reductions”, to the villages of vernacular architecture, which are at the foundation of contemporary populated centres, the territory has been variously and successively settled, inhabited and transformed. Its vernacular architecture has evolved at multiple scales, from domestic architecture to urban structures. It has created spaces for agriculture and livestock herding, and the spectacular agricultural andenerías (farming platforms and terraces) that have shaped the territory for centuries. The latter simultaneously developed irrigation infrastructures and techniques. The result is a landscape of great plastic effects, in a geographical setting bordered by the apus – tutelar mountains – traditionally “sacralized” by the Andean cultures. Such enormous architectural-landscape legacy is now threatened by imported global models of false modernity disrupting the fragile balance of lifestyles and territories. The objective of this research project, ongoing since 2016, is to assess this territory, catalogue its vernacular architecture and landscape units. It also aims to propose projects and initiatives for sustainable local development. The work has been made available to the Ministry of Culture of Peru to support its request before UNESCO to include the site in its World Heritage List.
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Doolittle, William E. "Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports." University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/582060.

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Gallo, Diana Lorena Rodriguez. "Água e paisagem agrícola entre os grupos pré-hispânicos da Sabana de Bogotá - Colômbia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-06082015-144204/.

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O Sistema Hidráulico de Campos Elevados de Cultivo, Camellones, construído ao longo de 2500 anos pelos grupos pré-hispânicos da Sabana de Bogotá, Colômbia, é o tema central da presente tese. O nosso trabalho focou na relação estabelecida entre estes grupos e a água, para determinar de que maneira a interação entre ambos levou a uma forma particular de exploração dos recursos e de ocupação do território. O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi entender como foi organizada a espacialidade e as atividades cotidianas, especificamente durante o período Muisca Tardio (1000 - 1550 DC), em torno do sistema hidráulico, isto é, como se construiu uma paisagem agrícola em um ecossistema de águas abertas, e como mudou essa paisagem com a colonização espanhola durante a segunda metade do século XVI. Apoiados nos conceitos e elementos teóricos da Arqueologia da Paisagem e da Ecologia Histórica, e nos dados arqueológicos, paleo-ambientais, documentais e na fotointerpretação, desenvolvemos uma análise que permitiu estabelecer que o sistema de camellones foi o resultado da inter-relação homem-meio em que os homens criaram uma forma de viver em um meio alagadiço e com grandes áreas de pântano permanente, construindo longos canais para controlar a água, criando áreas de mitigação das enchentes, obstruindo a confluência de alguns rios e elevando os campos para cultivo. A água, longe de ser um problema, se transformou no eixo de um sistema que não só provia alimentos mas também recursos derivados da pesca e da caça. Esta paisagem mudou drasticamente com a colonização espanhola, já que ela transformou o sistema social e produtivo dos Muiscas, o qual sustentava o sistema hidráulico. A mudança na forma de posse da terra, no tipo de plantas cultivadas, na introdução de elementos completamente alheios como o gado, somado à queda populacional, ao rompimento dos laços comunitários tradicionais, enfim, o desabamento do mundo que até então tinham conhecido, dificultou a reprodução social das estruturas necessárias para que o sistema hidráulico sobrevivesse.
The Hydraulic System of Raised Fields Cultivation, Camellones, built throughout 2500 years by pre-Hispanic groups from the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia, is the central theme of this thesis. Our work focused the relationship between these groups and the water, to determine how the interaction between them led to a particular form of exploitation of resources and occupation of the territory. The overall objective of the research was to understand how it was organized the spatiality and quotidian activities, specifically during the Late Muisca period (1000 - 1550 AD), around the hydraulic system, that is, how it was built an agricultural landscape in an ecosystem of open water, and how this landscape changed with the Spanish colonization during the second half of the sixteenth century. Building on the concepts and theoretical elements of Landscape Archaeology and Historical Ecology, as well as archaeological, paleo-environmental, documentary data and photointerpretation, we developed an analysis that determined that the system of camellones was the result of the inter-relationship man-environment in which men have created a way to live in a wetland environment and with large areas of permanent swamp, building long channels to control the water, creating areas of mitigation of floods, blocking the confluence of some rivers and raising the fields for cultivation. The water, far from being a problem, has become the axis of a system that not only provided food but also the proceeds of fishing and hunting. This landscape has changed dramatically with the Spanish colonization, as it transformed the social and productive system of Muiscas, which supported the hydraulic system. The change in the form of land tenure, the type of crops, the introduction of completely unrelated elements such as cattle, added to the population decline, the breakdown of traditional community ties, ultimately, the collapse of the world that they had hitherto known, difficult the social reproduction of the structures necessary for the hydraulic system to survive.
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Books on the topic "Pre-Hispanic agriculture"

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Doolittle, William Emery. Pre-Hispanic occupance in the valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological confirmation of early Spanish reports. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.

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International Congress of Americanists (45th 1985 Bogotá, Colombia). Pre-Hispanic agricultural fields in the Andean Region: Proceedings, 45 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1987.

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Denevan, William M. Pre-Hispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region: Proceedings, 45 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, International Congress of Americanists (Bar International Series). Bar Company, 1987.

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Villalpando, Elisa, and Randall H. McGuire. Sonoran Pre-Hispanic Traditions. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.19.

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The international border between the United States and Mexico has no meaning for the Aboriginal history of the Southwest/Northwest. It has, however, greatly limited the amount of archaeology done in northern Mexico. Since the 1980s, Mexican and U.S. archaeologists have done increasing amounts of research in the Mexican state of Sonora. Here they have developed an international collaborative practice of archaeology unique in North America. Sonora has a rich archaeological record that includes Paleoindian and Archaic sites. This chapter focuses on the agricultural peoples of Sonora, beginning with the Early Agricultural site of La Playa. Archaeologists have defined six ceramic period archaeological traditions in the state (Central Coast, Trincheras, Casas Grandes, Río Sonora, Huatabampo, and Serrana). Contrary to earlier interpretations of these traditions as extensions of events, processes, and cultures found to the south or the north, contemporary archaeology is demonstrating them to be the results of complex local developments.
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Book chapters on the topic "Pre-Hispanic agriculture"

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Siemens, Alfred H. "Reducing the Risk: Some Indications Regarding Pre-Hispanic Wetland Agricultural Intensification from Contemporary Use of a Wetland/Terra Firma Boundary Zone in Central Veracruz." In Ecological Studies, 233–50. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3252-0_15.

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Kendall, Ann. "Applied Archaeology in the Andes: The Contribution of Pre-Hispanic Agricultural Terracing to Environmental and Rural Development Strategies." In Humans and the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0018.

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Patterns of civilization in the Central Andes can be seen to have fluctuated over the last 5,000 years in relation to climate changes. Starting with the first American civilization at Caral, on the Peruvian coast, other impressive coastal centres and cultural areas followed and subsequently the highland cultural areas and civilizations took over in what now seems to have been at least partly a response to periods of climate changes. While the early coastal environment offered economic advantages of maritime resources and made it easy to adapt and benefit from the early arrival of imported cultigens, greater effort was required to develop agriculture from wild local species at high altitudes in rugged terrains. However, by the first millennium BC, following adverse effects of droughts in coastal areas, the highland religious centre at Chavin de Huantar developed an influential impact in the Early Horizon Period (c.500–c.200 BC), expanding through trade networks to adjacent regions and southwards towards Paracas on the southern coast. Following the centre’s demise around 200 BC (due to the increasing impoverishment of the highland environment) impetus returned to a new surge of coastal developments, notably the emergence of the Mochica and Nazca cultures on the northern and southern coasts respectively, and at Pucara in the altiplano. Here Rowe’s chronological system of Intermediate Periods characterized by regional states and Horizon Periods characterized by broader dominating cultures can be seen to be influenced by the swings of past climate. Temperature and precipitation have been shown to be prime influences underlying the sustainability of cultural developments, driven by agricultural developments, at key centres of Andean power (Kendall and Rodríguez 2009),. Early economic and cultural developments centred on Lake Titicaca in the southern altiplano were supported by agricultural systems, including cocha (ponds) networks developed for specialized cultivation (Flores Ochoa and Paz 1986) and camellones or wayru wayru (raised fields) around wetland shores (Erickson 1985).
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Isendahl, Christian, and Walter Sánchez. "Archaeology’s Potential to Contribute to Pools of Agronomic Knowledge: A Case of Applied Agro-Archaeology in the Bolivian Yungas." In Humans and the Environment. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199590292.003.0017.

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Over the last two decades the concept of applied archaeology has been used increasingly to refer to how archaeology can contribute more broadly to society at large. Depending on the intellectual and geographical context there are many different ways that applied archaeology is understood. One important set of approaches builds on the standard definition of applied science as the application of scientific knowledge in creative problem-solving. Many archaeologists find that evidence which sheds light on resource exploitation strategies in the past is particularly rewarding in this regard, arguing that the insights gained from archaeological research can guide land use planning and resource management and make a positive impact on local livelihoods for people today and in the future (Costanza et al. 2007a; Hayashida 2005). This kind of applied archaeology is usually associated with rural livelihood development, but there is also an emerging applied archaeology of land use planning in predominantly urban sectors (Smith 2010). Some of the most prolific projects of applied agro-archaeology for rural development are those engaging in rejuvenating prehistoric agricultural features that have fallen into disuse or are being mismanaged. Groundbreaking applied agro-archaeology in the Andean region demonstrates considerable advances in this field, reconstructing abandoned raised fields, irrigation canals, and cultivation terraces in order to understand pre-Hispanic agricultural systems and long-term land-use dynamics and to re-apply ancient technologies for contemporary use (Chepstow-Lusty and Winfield 2000; Erickson 1985, 1994, 1998; Kendall 1997b, 2005, Chapter 9 this volume). The Andes are exceptionally rich in archaeological remains of pre-Hispanic agriculture and demonstrate considerable diversity in peoples’ approaches in the past in addressing the many different managerial issues associated with sustaining a farming livelihood in these environments (Denevan 2001; Donkin 1979). Linking the broad scope of applied agro-archaeology to the theoretical framework of historical ecology (Balée 1998, 2006; Balée and Erickson 2006; Crumley 1994, 2000, 2007), the motive of this contribution is to discuss some of the problems and opportunities facing an on-going applied agro-archaeological project in the Yungas of the Bolivian Andes (Isendahl 2008).
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Carballo, David M. "Mesoamerica." In Collision of Worlds, 16–49. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190864354.003.0002.

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A deep history of Mesoamerica traces how the transition from nomadic foragers to settled farmers of maize and other crops resulted in the first villages, unifying art styles, and later cities, states, and empires. Cultures such as the Olmecs, Mayas, Teotihuacanos, and Toltecs preceded the Aztecs, who incorporated elements of all of them, particularly the last two from the same region of central Mexico. This chapter examines millennia of Mesoamerican history known through archaeology, the history of art, and epigraphic study of the few extant Native texts from the pre-Hispanic era. It explores how Mesoamericans first cultivated maize and other crops to establish an agricultural base somewhat familiar to readers as Mexican and Central American cuisine; the development of the earliest team sports involving rubber balls; urbanization into populous cities featuring pyramidal temple complexes; the invention of hieroglyphic scripts and the concept of zero before it existed in Europe; and the political rise and collapse of successive civilizations prior to the Aztecs.
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Benson, Larry, John Stein, Howard Taylor, Richard Friedman, and Thomas C. Windes. "The Agricultural Productivity of Chaco Canyon and the Source(s) of Pre-Hispanic Maize Found in Pueblo Bonito." In Histories of Maize, 289–314. Elsevier, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-012369364-8/50273-4.

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"The Agricultural Productivity of Chaco Canyon and the Source(s) of Pre-Hispanic Maize Found in Pueblo Bonito." In Histories of Maize, 315–40. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315427331-30.

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Klepeis, Peter, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury. "Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido." In Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199245307.003.0017.

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Despite decades of colonization and development initiatives, the southern Yucatán peninsular region remains an economic frontier. The term ‘frontier’, however, hides a complex political economy of social, political, and economic structures in which land managers operate. Presently, multiple interest groups vie for influence, increasingly positioning themselves around sustainability concerns, and attempting to reconcile the competing goals of economic development and environmental preservation. The major political institutions and organizations promoting conservation and development in the region fit into five categories: federally decreed land management regimes, federal and state secretariats, local community-based groups and institutions, national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and international accords. These institutions and organizations aim to influence land-use decisions in the dominant land access unit, the ejido. The relationships among ejidos, social movements, NGOs, government policy, and international activity in the region are examined here, highlighting how even within a frontier economy, conservation and development visions increasingly influence resource use. Before the Mexican revolution of 1910–17, 96 per cent of Mexico’s rural people were landless (Sinha 1984). These rural poor supported the revolution, in large part, to break up grand haciendas (estates) and to allow campesinos (peasants) access to agricultural land. Ejidos, one of four landtenure types federally mandated, were designed to provide campesinos access to land that could not be transferred easily and thereby taken from them. Based on interpretations of pre-Hispanic land tenure, Article 27 of the Constitution established ejido land to be communal, ruled by an ejido assembly (consisting of all members with land rights in the ejido, or ejidatarios), and used in ejido-defined usufruct. Prior to 1992, when the law was reformed, ejidatarios were prevented from selling their land, renting it, or using it as collateral, and from negotiating deals with private investors. Perhaps more important than these official guidelines, however, are the perceptions of ejidos by state officials. Established, in part, to protect ‘indigenous’ people and not open to privatization, the ejido was stigmatized as ill-suited for modernization (Oasa and Jennings 1982). A bimodal Mexican agrarian policy followed (de Janvry 1981; Tomich, Kilby, and Johnston 1995) in which the potential productive role of ejidatarios was largely ignored (Oasa and Jennings 1982; Sonnenfeld 1992; Tomich, Kilby, and Johnston 1995).
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