Agricultural Strategies

428 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume brings together a diverse set of new studies--archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic--that focus on agricultural intensification and hydraulic systems around the world. Fifteen chapters--written by many of the world's leading experts--combine extensive regional overviews of agricultural histories with in-depth case studies. In this volume are chapters on agriculture in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, and South America. A wide range of theoretical perspectives and approaches are used to provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. This book covers the co-evolutionary relationships among sociopolitical structure, agriculture, land-use, and water control. Agricultural Strategies is an invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification and agriculture in the past and present.

• Reihe: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
• ISBN: 9781931745222
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2006
• Größe: 242 x 156 mm
• Verlag: ISD International - IPSUK
• Herausgegeben von: Charles Stanish, Joyce Marcus