Agricultural Landscape (Other Keyword)
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the results of the research conducted at the Moreta settlement in the Pozuelos (Jujuy, Argentina) where we have detected an extensive agricultural area built by the Incas. A critical reading about agrarian landscapes is fundamental in order to recognize the different strategies that Inca state applied in its conquest and control of the Argentinian Northwest. This region experienced a series of transformations during the second millennium CE; in this sense,...
Life in a Land of Little Rain: Historical Agricultural Landscapes on the Carrizo Plain, California (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carrizo Plain National Monument (CPNM) contains a large number of structures and features associated with historical agriculture on the Carrizo Plain. This largely intact cultural landscape spans a period of significance from the Homestead Act through industrial scale dryland farming. Historical and archaeological contexts have been developed for the...