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Agricultural Strategies
. Ed(S): Marcus, Joyce; Stanish, Charles
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Description for Agricultural Strategies
Looks at the role of agriculture in ancient societies from the near east, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Marcus, Joyce; Stanish, Charles. Num Pages: 300 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HDDA; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781931745246
SKU
V9781931745246
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About . Ed(S): Marcus, Joyce; Stanish, Charles
Joyce Marcus is Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished Professor of Social Evolution, department of anthropology, and director and Curator of Latin American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology, at the University of Michigan. Charles Stanish holds the Lloyd Cotsen Chair in Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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