Agricultural Strategies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931745222)

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.

Author: Joyce Marcus
ISBN-10: 1931745226
ISBN-13: 9781931745222
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 1.25d