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Author : Henry Wolcott Toll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89058579640
Author : V. B. Price,Baker H. Morrow
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826338607
A new look at Puebloan landscaping techniques and uses of plants and how they can influence modern architects in the Southwest.
Author : Scott E. Ingram,Robert C. Hunt
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816531295
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture is the first of its kind. Each chapter considers four questions: what we don’t know about specific aspects of traditional agriculture, why we need to know more, how we can know more, and what research questions can be pursued to know more. What is known is presented to provide context for what is unknown. Traditional agriculture, nonindustrial plant cultivation for human use, is practiced worldwide by millions of smallholder farmers in arid lands. Advancing an understanding of traditional agriculture can improve its practice and contribute to understanding the past. Traditional agriculture has been practiced in the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico for at least four thousand years and intensely studied for at least one hundred years. What is not known or well-understood about traditional arid lands agriculture in this region has broad application for research, policy, and agricultural practices in arid lands worldwide. The authors represent the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, art, botany, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and pedology. This multidisciplinary book will engage students, practitioners, scholars, and any interested in understanding and advancing traditional agriculture.
Author : Graeme Barker,David Gilbertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134582655
Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement.
Author : Michelle Goman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642368806
The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs. Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment. Conversely, as human populations began to increase geologic and climatic factors begin to have a greater impact on civilizations. To understand and reconstruct the complex interplay between humans and the environment over the past ten thousand years requires examination of multiple differing but interconnected aspects of the environment and involves geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology. These Springer Briefs volumes examine the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural environment as reconstructed by the many and varied sub-fields of the Earth Sciences.
Author : John Staller,Robert Tykot,Bruce Benz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427317
Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.
Author : Paul E. Minnis,Wayne J. Elisens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0806133457
Exploring the relationship between Native Americans and the natural world, Biodiversity and Native America questions the widespread view that indigenous peoples had minimal ecological impact in North America. Introducing a variety of perspectives - ethnopharmacological, ethnographic, archaeological, and biological - this volume shows that Native Americans were active managers of natural ecological systems. The book covers groups from the sophisticated agriculturalists of the Mississippi River drainage region to the low-density hunter-gatherers of arid western North America. This book allows readers to develop accurate restoration, management, and conservation models through a thorough knowledge of native peoples’ ecological history and dynamics. It also illustrates how indigenous peoples affected environmental patterns and processes, improving crop diversity and agricultural patterns.
Author : Benno P Warkentin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080477879
The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways. This book is about the progressive “footprints made by scientists in the soil. It contains chapters chosen from important topics in the development of soil science, and tells the story of the people and the exciting ideas that contributed to our present understanding of soils. Initiated by discussions within the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, this book uniquely illustrates the significance of soils to our society. It is planned for soils students, for various scientific disciplines, and for members of the public who show an increasing interest in soil. This book allows us to answer the questions: “How do we know what we know about soils? and “How did one step or idea lead to the next one? The chapters are written by an international group of authors, each with special interests, bound together by the central theme of soils and how we came to our present understanding of soils. Each concentrate on soil knowledge in the western world and draw primarily on written accounts available in English and European languages. Academics, graduate students, researchers and practitioners will gain new insights from these studies of how ideas in soil science and understanding of uses of soils developed. * Discusses tracing soils knowledge accumulated from Roman times, first by soil users and after 1800s by scientists * Offers ideas about how soils knowledge was influenced by the social context and by human needs * Combines the history of ideas with scientific knowledge of soils * Written by chapter authors who combine subject matter expertise with knowledge of practical soil uses, and provide numerous references for further study of the relevant literature
Author : John Kantner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521788803
An introduction to the history of the Puebloan Southwest from the AD 1000s to the sixteenth century, first published in 2004.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826343295
A memoir recounts the author's travels to Arizona, Nebraska, Colorado's Weminuche Wilderness, the Sea of Cortez, Zuni Pueblo, Brazil, and a vision quest along New Mexico's Mimbres River; while describing her lobbying for wilderness in the midst of the troubled relationship between government and environmental sanctuaries, and tracing her own development as a poet and person.
Author : William Emery Doolittle,James A. Neely,Karen R. Adams
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816524289
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.
Author : Vance T. Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195348818
Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications in archaeological research.
Author : H. Thomas Foster, II,Lisa M. Paciulli
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781611175875
Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster, II, Lisa M. Paciulli, and David J. Goldstein argue that it is increasingly apparent to environmental and earth sciences experts that humans have had a profound effect on the physical, climatological, and biological earth. Consequently, they suggest that understanding any aspect of the earth within the last ten thousand years means understanding the density and activities of Homo sapiens. The essays reveal the ways in which archaeologists and anthropologists have devised methodological and theoretical tools and applied them to pre-Columbian societies in the New World and ancient sites in the Middle East. Some of the authors demonstrate how these tools can be useful in examining modern societies. The contributors provide evidence that past and present ecosystems, economies, and landscapes must be understood through the study of human activity over millennia and across the globe.
Author : Barbara J. Mills,Severin M. Fowles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199978427
This volume takes stock of the empirical evidence, theoretical orientations, and historical reconstructions of archaeology of the American Southwest. Themed chapters on method and theory are accompanied by comprehensive overviews of all major cultural traditions in the region, from the Paleoindians, to Chaco Canyon, to the onset of Euro-American imperialism.
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191617386
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span - Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas - and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.