Agricultural Strategies

By Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931745226
• ISBN13: 9781931745222
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at U C L A
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"