Landscapes of Production: Recent Research on the Archaeology of Field and Irrigation Systems
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
Archaeologists examine agricultural landscapes to address a range of questions on ancient ecologies and economies. At the same time, understanding the creation, management, expansion, intensification, and abandonment of field and irrigation systems can be hampered by problems of visibility, preservation, and chronology. This session highlights recent research in the archaeology of agricultural landscapes from areas around the world, and includes novel theoretical and methodological approaches as well as syntheses of long-term, interdisciplinary projects. The session brings together researchers with different study areas, training, and perspectives to share ideas and information and inspire new directions in research.
Other Keywords
Agriculture •
Landscape •
Aztec •
andes •
hydrology •
Irrigation •
Farming •
Agricultural Systems •
Cultivation •
Systematic surface survey
Geographic Keywords
South America •
Mesoamerica •
Oceania •
South Asia •
North America - Southwest •
East/Southeast Asia
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- Documents (12)
- Agricultural Landscapes in Northern Argentina (2015)
- Agriculture and Empire in the High-Altitude Atacama Desert (2015)
- Agriculture Roles in Landscapes and Taskcapes: An Interdisciplinary Approach from Northwestern Argentina (2015)
- Approaches to assessing anthropogenic soil-landscape change in ancient agricultural systems (2015)
- A Better Understanding of Ancient Farming through Hydrology (2015)
- Innovations under limitations: A landscape approach to agricultural practices and water management in a frontier zone of medieval South India. (2015)
- The Landscape of Agricultural Engineering in Windward Kohala, Hawaii Island (2015)
- Post-AD 1600 Origins of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Highland Responses to Spanish Colonial Aims in the Philippines (2015)
- Producers on the Lake: Late Aztec Lakebed Chinampa Communities of Lake Xochimilco (2015)
- Socio-Spatial Isomorphism and Ancient Farming Systems: Nominal versus Practical Tenure in the Basin of Mexico (2015)
- Strengthening the State: Intensification and Mixed Agricultural Strategies in Late Postclassic Puebla-Tlaxcala (2015)
- What’s that mound? Answers from interdisciplinary approach (2015)