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Archaeological Investigations Of Portions Of The Las Acequias Los Muertos Irrigation System
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Book Synopsis Archaeological Investigations of Portions of the Las Acequias-Los Muertos Irrigation System by : W. Bruce Masse
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations of Portions of the Las Acequias-Los Muertos Irrigation System written by W. Bruce Masse and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico by : William E. Doolittle
Download or read book Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico written by William E. Doolittle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric farmers in Mexico invented irrigation, developed it into a science, and used it widely. Indeed, many of the canal systems still in use in Mexico today were originally begun well before the discovery of the New World. In this comprehensive study, William E. Doolittle synthesizes and extensively analyzes all that is currently known about the development and use of irrigation technology in prehistoric Mexico from about 1200 B.C. until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century A.D. Unlike authors of previous studies who have focused on the political, economic, and social implications of irrigation, Doolittle considers it in a developmental context. He examines virtually all the known systems, from small canals that diverted runoff from ephemeral mountain streams to elaborate networks that involved numerous large canals to irrigate broad valley floors with water from perennial rivers. Throughout the discussion, he gives special emphasis to the technological elaborations that distinguish each system from its predecessors. He also traces the spread of canal technology into and through different ecological settings. This research substantially clarifies the relationship between irrigation technology in Mexico and the American Southwest and argues persuasively that much of the technology that has been attributed to the Spaniards was actually developed in Mexico by indigenous people. These findings will be important not only for archaeologists working in this area but also for geographers, historians, and engineers interested in agriculture, technology, and arid lands.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Garden and Field by : Naomi F. Miller
Download or read book The Archaeology of Garden and Field written by Naomi F. Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivation and land use practices the world over reflect many aspects of people's relationship to each other and to the natural world. The Archaeology of Garden and Field explores the cultivation of land from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century through excavation, experimentation, and the study of modern cultural traditions. The Archaeology of Garden and Field contains a wealth of information distilled from the combined experiences of the editors and contributors. Whether one's interest is the Old World or the New, prehistory or the present, this book provides a starting point for anyone who has ever wondered how archaeologists find and interpret the ephemeral traces of ancient cultivation.
Book Synopsis Archaic Occupation on the Santa Cruz Flats by : T. Kathleen Henderson
Download or read book Archaic Occupation on the Santa Cruz Flats written by T. Kathleen Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions by : Daniel Contreras
Download or read book The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions written by Daniel Contreras and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural change. Establishing clear contemporaneity and correlation, and then moving beyond correlation to causation, remains as much a theoretical task as a methodological one. This book addresses this challenge by exploring new approaches to human-environment dynamics and confronting the key task of constructing arguments that can link the two in concrete and detailed ways. The contributors include researchers working in a wide variety of regions and time periods, including Mesoamerica, Mongolia, East Africa, the Amazon Basin, and the Island Pacific, among others. Using methodological vignettes from their own research, the contributors explore diverse approaches to human-environment dynamics, illustrating the manifold nature of the subject and suggesting a wide variety of strategies for approaching it. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in Archaeology, Paleoenvironmental Science, Ecology, and Geology.
Book Synopsis Ethnobiology at the Millennium by : Richard I. Ford
Download or read book Ethnobiology at the Millennium written by Richard I. Ford and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers from the Ethnobiology 2000 millennium conference in Ann Arbor. Contributions by Richard Ford, Elizabeth Wing, Steven Weber, Paul Minnis, Karen Adams, Eugene Hunn, Cecil Brown, Catherine Fowler, Nancy Turner, and Eugene Anderson.
Book Synopsis Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements: Testing results and data recovery plan by :
Download or read book Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements: Testing results and data recovery plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clovis Mammoth Butchery by : L. Adrien Hannus
Download or read book Clovis Mammoth Butchery written by L. Adrien Hannus and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen millennia ago, in a small creek valley in western South Dakota, two mammoths perished. The mammoths, an adult and a juvenile, likely a cow and calf pair, died at the edge of an ancient pond. The Lange/Ferguson site is the earliest dated archaeological site in South Dakota and one of the few North American sites that provides evidence of a Clovis-period mammoth butchering event. In addition to the preserved remains of the two mammoths, the site yielded diagnostic Clovis weaponry—three Clovis projectile points recovered in context and stratigraphically associated with the mammoth bonebed—and flaked bone tools. The site offers a rare snapshot in time detailing early Paleoindian interactions with now-extinct megafauna nearly 13,000 years ago. In Clovis Mammoth Butchery: The Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology, L. Adrien Hannus provides a comprehensive look at one of the few New World Clovis-era sites with in-place buried deposits exhibiting evidence for an expedient bone tool technology. Multidisciplinary investigations include paleoenvironmental and geochronological reconstructions—pollen and phytoliths, geology and geomorphology, diatoms and ostracodes, mollusks, and vertebrate paleontology—as well as taphonomic evaluations and a microwear analysis of the chipped stone tools. Clovis Mammoth Butchery offers readers a rare glimpse into a singular moment in prehistory that captures human interaction with extinct animals during a rapidly changing world for which there is no modern comparison. This book shares great insight into hunting and procurement strategies used by big game hunters during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.
Download or read book Archaeological Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements by : David H. Greenwald
Download or read book Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements written by David H. Greenwald and published by Swca Environmental Consultants. This book was released on 1994 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas by :
Download or read book The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture and Contact by : Anne I. Woosley
Download or read book Culture and Contact written by Anne I. Woosley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are the result of a seminar examining Di Peso's theories about contact, conquest, and culture change. Gumerman, Riley, and McGuire begin with biographical studies. Essays by Doyel and Braniff cover the two major subregions with which Di Peso was most concerned. The remaining chapters are devoted to new studies influenced by Di Peso's original investigations at Casas Grandes and include essays by Dean and Ravesloot, Woosley, Olinger, Doolittle, Breitburg, Nelson, and Weigand.
Download or read book The Kiva written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements: Dutch Canal ruin by :
Download or read book Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements: Dutch Canal ruin written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hohokam Archaeology Along Phase B of the Tucson Aqueduct Central Arizona Project by : Jon S. Czaplicki
Download or read book Hohokam Archaeology Along Phase B of the Tucson Aqueduct Central Arizona Project written by Jon S. Czaplicki and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World by : Vernon L. Scarborough
Download or read book Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Safford Valley Grids by : William Emery Doolittle
Download or read book The Safford Valley Grids written by William Emery Doolittle and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisscrossing Pleistocene terrace tops and overlooking the Gila River in southeastern Arizona are acres and acres of rock alignments that have perplexed archaeologists for a century. Well known but poorly understood, these features have long been considered agricultural, but exactly what was cultivated, how, and why remained a mystery. Now we know. Drawing on the talents of a team of scholars representing various disciplines, including geology, soil science, remote sensing, geographical information sciences (GISc), hydrology, botany, palynology, and archaeology, the editors of this volume explain when and why the grids were built. Between A.D. 750 and 1385, people gathered rocks from the tops of the terraces and rearranged them in grids of varying size and shape, averaging about 4 meters to 5 meters square. The grids captured rainfall and water accumulated under the rocks forming the grids. Agave was planted among the rocks, providing a dietary supplement to the maize and beans that were irrigated on the nearby bottom land, a survival crop when the staple crops failed, and possibly a trade commodity when yields were high. Stunning photographs by Adriel Heisey convey the vastness of the grids across the landscape.
