Agricultural strategies /
Takes a worldwide look at the role of agriculture within ancient societies.
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| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles] :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles,
2006.
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| Series: | Cotsen advanced seminars ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish
- 2. Intensified large-scale irrigation as an aspect of imperial policy : strategies of statecraft on the late Sasanian Mesopotamian plain / Robert McC. Adams
- 3. From highland to desert : the organization of landscape and irrigation in Southern Arabia / Tony Wilkinson
- 4. Intensification as situated process : landscape history and collapse / Kathleen Morrison
- 5. Water supply, labor organization, and land ownership in Indus floodplain agricultural systems / Heather M.-L. Miller
- 6. The barren and the fertile : central and local intensification strategies across variable landscapes / Tina L. Thurston
- 7. Irrigation in medieval Spain : a personal narrative across a generation / Thomas F. Glick
- 8. Agricultural intensification : a Polynesian perspective / Patrick V. Kirch
- 9. The roles of ritual and technology in Mesoamerican water management / Joyce Marcus
- 10. The economic underpinnings of prehispanic Zapotec civilization : small-scale production, economic interdependence, and market exchange / Gary M. Feinman
- 11. Agricultural intensification, water, and political power in the Southern Maya lowlands / Lisa J. Lucero
- 12. Agricultural innovation, intensification, and sociopolitical development : the case of highland irrigation agriculture on the Pacific Andean watersheds / Patrick Ryan Williams
- 13. Intensification, political economy, and the farming community : in defense of a bottom-up perspective of the past / Clark L. Erickson
- 14. Prehispanic agricultural strategies of intensification in the Titicaca basin of Peru and Bolivia / Charles Stanish
- 15. Intensification and the political economy : a contextual overview / Vernon L. Scarborough.
