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Economic aspects of water management in the prehispanic New World
- Title
- Economic aspects of water management in the prehispanic New World / editors, Vernon L. Scarborough, Barry L. Isaac.
- Publication
- Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, 1993.
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- Description
- xi, 471 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Research in economic anthropology. Supplement ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Research in economic anthropology. Supplement ; 7.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1000 v. Chr.-1470
- Indians of North America > Economic conditions
- Paleo-Indians > Water-supply
- Water > Management
- Irrigation > North America
- Indians of North America > Agriculture
- Economics, Prehistoric > North America
- Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Approvisionnement en eau
- Ressources en eau > Aménagement intégré
- Irrigation > Amérique du Nord
- Économie préhistorique > Amérique du Nord
- Economics, Prehistoric
- Irrigation
- Wasserversorgung
- Gestion des ressources en eau > Planification
- Préhistoire > Amérique
- Approvisionnement agricole en eau > Préhistoire > Amérique
- Indiens d'Amérique > Irrigation > Jusqu'à 1500
- Irrigation > Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500
- Agriculture > Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500
- Gestion des ressources en eau > Jusqu'à 1500
- North America
- Mittelamerika
- Südamerika
- Amérique > Conditions rurales > Jusqu'à 1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / Vernon L. Scarborough -- pt. I. The Southern Maya Lowlands. Water Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands: An Accretive Model for the Engineered Landscape / Vernon L. Scarborough. Aspects of Water Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands / Peter D. Harrison -- pt. II. The Central Mexican Highlands. Irrigation Canals and Chinampas: Recent Research in the Northern Basin of Mexico / Deborah L. Nichols and Charles D. Frederick. Water Control and Communal Labor During the Formative and Classic Periods in Central Mexico (ca. 1000 B.C.-A.D. 650) / Jorge Angulo V. -- pt. III. West Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Large-Scale Hydraulic Works in Prehistoric Western Mesoamerica / Phil C. Weigand.
- A Paleohydraulic Approach to Examining Agricultural Intensification in Hohokam Irrigation Systems / Jerry B. Howard -- pt. IV. The Central Andes. Chimu Hydraulic Technology and Statecraft on the North Coast of Peru, A.D. 1000-1470 / C.R. Ortloff. The Social Organization of Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin / Clark L. Erickson -- pt. V. Discussion. AMP, HH & OD: Some Comments / Barry L. Isaac.
- ISBN
- 1559386460
- 9781559386463
- OCLC
- ocm29857408
- 29857408
- SCSB-2052888
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library