Research Catalog

Title

Soil, water, biology, and belief in prehistoric and traditional Southwestern agriculture / H. Wolcott Toll, editor.

Publication

Albuquerque, N.M. : New Mexico Archaeological Council, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Toll, Henry Wolcott.
• New Mexico Archaeological Council.

Description

xv, 373 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Special publication ; 2

Uniform Title

Special publication (New Mexico Archaeological Council) ; no. 2.

Subject

• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Southwest, New > Congresses
• Traditional farming > Southwest, New > Congresses
• Pueblo Indians > Agriculture > Congresses
• Irrigation farming > Southwest, New > Congresses
• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Mexico > Congresses
• Southwest, New > Antiquities > Congresses

Note

• "Most of these papers were presented at an agriculture symposium held by the New Mexico Archaeological Council in Santa Fe in October of 1992"--P. xiii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A comparative study of prehistoric farming strategies / Timothy D. Maxwell -- Anasazi field systems in the Taos District / James L. Moore -- Saving a rainy day : the integration of diverse agricultural technologies to harvest and conserve water in the lower Rio Chama Valley, New Mexico / Kurt F. Anschuetz -- The fields of San Marcos : agriculture at a great town of the Galisteo Basin, northern New Mexico / Richard W. Lang -- 14th century dry farming features in the northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico / Cynthia L. Herhahn -- Estimating agricultural carrying capacity in the Zuni region, west-central New Mexico : a water allocation model / David Rhode -- Mixed agricultural technologies in southern Arizona and their implications / Suzanne K. Fish.
• Searching soil for clues about Southwest prehistoric agriculture / Jonathan A. Sandor -- Biological nitrogen fixation and soil fertility in Southwestern lands : implications for Anasazi agriculture / Alison M. Berry -- Water availability for plant growth in Precolumbian terrace soils, Chihuahua, Mexico / Laurance C. Herold and Reuben F. Miller -- An interpretive framework for radiocarbon dates from soil organic matter from prehistoric water control features / G. Lain Ellis -- The case for prehistoric irrigation in the northern Southwest / Sally T. Greiser and James L. Moore -- Climatic overview of the Rio Grande del Rancho Valley : background for irrigation / Jeffrey L. Boyer -- Prehistoric irrigation at Pot Creek Pueblo / James L. Moore -- Prehistoric irrigation in the Taos Valley / Sally T. Greiser and T. Weber Greiser.
• Mogollon/Western Pueblo soil and water control systems of the reserve phase : new data from west-central New Mexico / James A. Neely -- The San Saba-Menard irrigation system : lessons learned by unraveling its origins / William E. Doolittle -- Important variables for prehistoric irrigation studies / Neal W. Ackerly -- Traditional agriculture on the Zuni Indian reservation in the recent historic period / Carol B. Brandt -- Maize productivity and AGROECOLOGY : effects of environment and agricultural practices on the biology of maize / Deborah A. Muenchrath and Ricardo J. Salvador -- Agriculture and the Mesa Verde area Anasazi diet : description and nutritional analysis / Linda Scott Cummings -- In search of the rare : pollen evidence of prehistoric agriculture / Glenna Dean -- The where, when, and why of corn guardians / Vorsila L. Bohrer -- Dryland gardening in southwest Colorado : past and present / Linda Honeycutt.

ISBN

096493119 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 33841958
• SCSB-9927715

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