Agricultural Production (Other Keyword)

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Foraging Towards Farming: a Decisive Transition or a Millennial Blur? (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Bellwood.

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Imperial Context and Agricultural Content: Dimensions of Space and Practice in Agricultural Lifeways in Dhiban, Jordan, 500 CE – 1400 CE (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Farahani.

In this paper the results of an archaeological case-study are presented to argue that considerations of space, taken here to be a physical location in Cartesian terms, are essential to identifying changes in agricultural practice in premodern imperial contexts. The recording of the location of samples intended for paleoethnobotanical analysis, whether through digital or other means, allows for more nuanced reconstructions of the depositional routes of archaeological plant remains. In turn, these...


Perceptions of Changing Landscape Mosaics in Southern Belize (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Zarger. Kristina Baines.

What drives human uncertainty when confronting gradual change versus catastrophic, rapid change? Based on longitudinal ethnographic data that includes household behavioral observations, oral histories and structured survey interviews of land use change, and continuous participant observation data, we describe the ways farming families in southern Belize have responded to changing environments over time, within the context of a mosaic of livelihood strategies. Ethnographic interviews with...