Gardens of prehistory : the archaeology of settlement agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica / edited by Thomas W. Killion.
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TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Indians -- Agriculture -- Congresses
- Agriculture, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses
- Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses
- America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General
- Agriculture, Prehistoric -- America
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America
- Indians -- Antiquities
- Indians -- Agriculture
- America -- Antiquities
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- Antiquities
- Indians -- Agriculture
- Indians -- Antiquities
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
- America
- Prehistorie
- Landbouw
- Indianen
- Midden-Amerika
- 630/.972/0901 20
- E59.A35 G37 1992eb
- F371. 29
- K887. 12
Edited papers from a symposium held during the 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 9, 1987, in Toronto.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index.
The archaeology of settlement agriculture / Thomas W. Killion -- Factors affecting settlement agriculture in the ethnographic and historic record of Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders and Thomas W. Killion -- Settlement and agriculture in the arid lands of greater Mesoamerica. The southwestern ethnographic record and prehistoric agricultural diversity / Timothy D. Maxwell and Kurt F. Anschuetz -- House-lot gardens in the Gran Chichimeca : ethnographic cause for archaeological concern / William E. Doolittle -- The productivity of Maguey terrace agriculture in central Mexico during the Aztec period / Susan T. Evans -- Artifact distribution and the organization of prehistoric agriculture : evidence from lowland Mesoamerica. Residential ethnoarchaeology and ancient site structure : contemporary farming and prehistoric settlement agriculture at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico / Thomas W. Killion -- A consideration of the Olmec phenomenon in the Tuxtlas : early formative settlement pattern, land use, and refuse disposal at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico / Robert S. Santley -- Agricultural tasks and tools : patterns of stone tool discard near prehistoric Maya residences bordering Pulltrouser Swamp, Belize / Patricia A. Mcanany -- Prehistoric cultivation, landscape modification, and chemical characterization. Intensive raised-field agriculture in a posteruption environment, El Salvador / Christian J. Zier -- Prehistoric intrasettlement land use and residual soil phosphate levels in the Upper Belize Valley, Central America / Joseph W. Ball & Richalene G. Kelsey.
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