Economic aspects of water management in the prehispanic New World

Title
  1. Economic aspects of water management in the prehispanic New World / editors, Vernon L. Scarborough, Barry L. Isaac.
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  1. Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, 1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Scarborough, Vernon L. (Vernon Lee), 1950-
  2. Isaac, Barry L.
Description
  1. xi, 471 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series statement
  1. Research in economic anthropology. Supplement ; 7
Uniform title
  1. Research in economic anthropology. Supplement ; 7.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1000 v. Chr.-1470
  2. Indians of North America > Economic conditions
  3. Paleo-Indians > Water-supply
  4. Water > Management
  5. Irrigation > North America
  6. Indians of North America > Agriculture
  7. Economics, Prehistoric > North America
  8. Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Approvisionnement en eau
  9. Ressources en eau > Aménagement intégré
  10. Irrigation > Amérique du Nord
  11. Économie préhistorique > Amérique du Nord
  12. Economics, Prehistoric
  13. Irrigation
  14. Wasserversorgung
  15. Gestion des ressources en eau > Planification
  16. Préhistoire > Amérique
  17. Approvisionnement agricole en eau > Préhistoire > Amérique
  18. Indiens d'Amérique > Irrigation > Jusqu'à 1500
  19. Irrigation > Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500
  20. Agriculture > Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500
  21. Gestion des ressources en eau > Jusqu'à 1500
  22. North America
  23. Mittelamerika
  24. Südamerika
  25. Amérique > Conditions rurales > Jusqu'à 1500
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.