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, were a favored place for their ancient inhabitants. Around the fifth century A.D., Prehispanic people built an extensive network of canals and raised fields along the margins of lakes and rivers that allowed for almost year-round...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siemens, Alfred H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Wetland agriculture > Mexico > San Juan River Region (Veracruz-Llave) > History.
Traditional farming > Mexico > San Juan River Region (Veracruz-Llave) > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
HISTORY / Historical Geography
Antiquities
Traditional farming
Wetland agriculture
Wetlands.
Agricultura > México.
Arqueologia mesoamericana > México.
Restos culturais (arqueologia) > México.
Agriculture traditionnelle > Mexique > San Juan (cours d'eau ; région)
Écologie des zones humides > Mexique > San Juan (cours d'eau ; région)
San Juan River Region (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) > Antiquities.
Mexico > San Juan River Region (Veracruz-Llave)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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