Agricultural Strategies (Cotsen Advanced Seminars) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931745242 ISBN 13: 9781931745246

Publisher: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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This volume assesses the practices and strategies of premodern agriculture from an archaeological perspective.

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1931745242
• ISBN 13: 9781931745246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Marcus Joyce, Stanish Charles