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| Genre/Form: | Congresses Congrès |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas W Killion; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting |
| ISBN: | 0817305653 9780817305659 |
| OCLC Number: | 25317378 |
| Notes: | Edited papers from a symposium held during the 52nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 9, 1987, in Toronto. |
| Description: | xvii, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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 distributions 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. (cont.) 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. Kelsay. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Thomas W. Killion. |
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