Soils, Climate & Society : Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America /

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"Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wingard, John Davis, 1958-, Hayes, Sue Eileen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013]
Temas:
Indians > Agriculture.
Soil science in archaeology > America.
Human ecology > America.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > America.
Soil science in archaeology.
Peuples autochtones > Agriculture.
Pédologie en archéologie.
Écologie humaine > Amérique.
Agriculture préhistorique > Amérique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Human ecology
Indians > Agriculture
Soil science in archaeology
America
Social Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a user's guide to soils, climate, and society / Sue Eileen Hayes and John D. Wingard
  • Population estimates for anthropogenically enriched soils (Amazonian dark earths) / William I. Woods, William M. Denevan, and Lilian Rebellato
  • Soilscape legacies : historical and emerging consequences of socioecological interactions in Honduras / E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazar, and David D. Kuehn
  • Drought, subsistence stress, and population dynamics : assessing Mississippian abandonment of the Vacant Quarter / Scott C. Meeks and David G. Anderson
  • Mimbres mogollon farming : estimating prehistoric agricultural production during the classic Mimbres period / Michael D. Pool
  • So who's counting? : modeling pre-Columbian agricultural potential in the Maya world / Sue Eileen Hayes
  • Tilling the fields and building the temples : assessing the relationship among land, labor, and classic Maya elite power in the Copán Valley, Honduras / John D. Wingard
  • An EPIC challenge : estimating site population in south coastal Peru / Sue Eileen Hayes
  • Feeding the masses : new perspectives on Maya agriculture from Cerén, El Salvador / Christine C. Dixon
  • How can we know? : the epistemological foundation of ecological modeling in archaeology / Sissel Schroeder.

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