Irrigation Communities (Other Keyword)
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Hohokam Irrigation Communities: A Study of Internal Structure, External Relationships and Sociopolitical Complexity (2006)
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The relationship between large-scale water control projects and the development of sociopolitical complexity is an important theoretical domain in anthropology that can benefit from the diachronic nature of archaeological data. It is argued that irrigation systems are socio-technic entities, designed not only to satisfy engineering requirements but also to accommodate the social groups operating it. This study develops a new theoretical framework for identifying the task groups operating these...