Soils, climate and society [electronic resource] : archaeological investigations in ancient America / edited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes.
"Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by...
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Boulder :
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[2013]
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Soils, Climate and Society: Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America |
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Contents:
- Introduction : a user's guide to soils, climate, and society / Sue Eileen Hayes and John D. Wingard
- Population estimates for anthropogenically enriched soils (Amazonian dark earths) / William I. Woods, William M. Denevan, and Lilian Rebellato
- Soilscape legacies : historical and emerging consequences of socioecological interactions in Honduras / E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazar, and David D. Kuehn
- Drought, subsistence stress, and population dynamics : assessing Mississippian abandonment of the Vacant Quarter / Scott C. Meeks and David G. Anderson
- Mimbres mogollon farming : estimating prehistoric agricultural production during the classic Mimbres period / Michael D. Pool
- So who's counting? : modeling pre-Columbian agricultural potential in the Maya world / Sue Eileen Hayes
- Tilling the fields and building the temples : assessing the relationship among land, labor, and classic Maya elite power in the Copán Valley, Honduras / John D. Wingard
- An EPIC challenge : estimating site population in south coastal Peru / Sue Eileen Hayes
- Feeding the masses : new perspectives on Maya agriculture from Cerén, El Salvador / Christine C. Dixon
- How can we know? : the epistemological foundation of ecological modeling in archaeology / Sissel Schroeder.