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1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Edited papers from a symposium held during the 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 9, 1987, in Toronto. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Indians -- Agriculture -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Agriculture. |
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric. |
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America. |
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America -- Congresses.
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric. |
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Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Antiquities. |
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America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Antiquities. |
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America -- Congresses -- Antiquities. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Killion, Thomas W.
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Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (52nd : 1987 : Toronto, Ont.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gardens of prehistory. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992 0817305653 (DLC) 92003420 (OCoLC)25317378 |
| ISBN |
0585140936 (electronic book) |
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9780585140933 (electronic book) |
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9780817305659 (alkaline paper) |
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0817305653 (alkaline paper) |
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0817305653 (alkaline paper) |
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