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A Favored Place : San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present /
The wetlands of the San Juan Basin in Central Veracruz, Mexico, have been a favored place since the fifth century A.D., when Prehispanic people built an extensive network of canals and raised fields that allowed for almost year-round agriculture. Alfred Siemens' discovery of the remains of this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Portrait
- Preface: An Amiable Collaboration
- 1. Finding and Deciphering Patterned Ground in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica
- 2. Deducing the San Juan Basin in A.D. 500
- 3. Probing the Ethnohistorical Literature Surrounding the Encounter
- 4. Reformatting Sixteenth-Century Documents
- 5. Maximizing Some Late-Eighteenth-Century Observations
- 6. Appreciating a Naturalist's Rendition of Central Veracruz in the Nineteenth Century
- 7. Struggling with a Technocratic Pathology of the Basin in Mid-Twentieth Century
- 8. Summing Up the Yields
- References
- Index