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Title Gardens of prehistory : the archaeology of settlement agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica / edited by Thomas W. Killion
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : illustrations
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Contents The archaeology of settlement agriculture / Thomas W. Killion -- Factors affecting settlement agriculture in the ethnographic and historic record of Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders and Thomas W. Killion -- Settlement and agriculture in the arid lands of greater Mesoamerica. The southwestern ethnographic record and prehistoric agricultural diversity / Timothy D. Maxwell and Kurt F. Anschuetz -- House-lot gardens in the Gran Chichimeca : ethnographic cause for archaeological concern / William E. Doolittle -- The productivity of Maguey terrace agriculture in central Mexico during the Aztec period / Susan T. Evans -- Artifact distribution and the organization of prehistoric agriculture : evidence from lowland Mesoamerica. Residential ethnoarchaeology and ancient site structure : contemporary farming and prehistoric settlement agriculture at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico / Thomas W. Killion -- A consideration of the Olmec phenomenon in the Tuxtlas : early formative settlement pattern, land use, and refuse disposal at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico / Robert S. Santley -- Agricultural tasks and tools : patterns of stone tool discard near prehistoric Maya residences bordering Pulltrouser Swamp, Belize / Patricia A. Mcanany -- Prehistoric cultivation, landscape modification, and chemical characterization. Intensive raised-field agriculture in a posteruption environment, El Salvador / Christian J. Zier -- Prehistoric intrasettlement land use and residual soil phosphate levels in the Upper Belize Valley, Central America / Joseph W. Ball & Richalene G. Kelsey
Notes Edited papers from a symposium held during the 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 9, 1987, in Toronto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Indians -- Agriculture -- Congresses
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses
Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- America.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America.
Indians -- Antiquities.
Indians -- Agriculture.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Antiquities
Indians -- Agriculture
Indians -- Antiquities
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Prehistorie.
Landbouw.
Indianen.
SUBJECT America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject America -- Antiquities.
America
Midden-Amerika.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Congressen (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Killion, Thomas W.
Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (52nd : 1987 : Toronto, Ont.)
LC no. 92003420
ISBN 0585140936
9780585140933
9780817305659
0817305653
9780817383763
081738376X