Seeking a Richer Harvest The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thurston, Tina L. (Editor), Fisher, Christopher T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 3
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Community & Population Ecology.

Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable debate over the actual mechanisms that promo...

Table of Contents:

• Seeking a Richer Harvest
• Classic Period Agricultural Intensification and Domestic Life at el Palmillo, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
• The Wet or the Dry?
• Agricultural Intensification in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin
• Chinampa Cultivation in the Basin of Mexico
• Agricultural Intensification in the Titicaca Basin
• Animal Intensification at Neolithic Gritille
• Infields, Outfields, and Broken Lands
• Cod Fish, Walrus, and Chieftains
• Intensification and Protohistoric Agropastoral Systems in East Africa
• Rethinking Intensification
• Intensification, Innovation, and Change.