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

Contributor(s): Thurston, Tina L [editor.1] | Fisher, Christopher T [editor.2] | SpringerLink (Online service)0.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation: 34Publisher: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.Description: X, 274 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387327624.Subject(s): Social sciences | Community ecology, Biotic | Anthropology | Archaeology.1 | Social Sciences.2 | Anthropology.2 | Archaeology.2 | Community & Population Ecology.1DDC classification: 301 Online resources: Click here to access online
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 P�tzcuaro 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.
In: Springer eBooks0Summary: 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 promote these processes. Traditional approaches to the "intensification question" emphasize population pressure, climate change, bureaucratic management, or even land degradation as prerequisites for the onset of new or changing strategies, or the construction and maintenance of agricultural landscapes. Most often these factors are modeled as external forces outside the realm of human decision-making, but recent archaeological research presents an alternative to this suggesting that subsistence intensification is the result of human driven strategies for power, prestige and status stemming from internal conditions within a group. When responding to environmental adversity, human groups were less frequently the victims, as they have been repeatedly portrayed. Instead human groups were often vigorous actors, responding with resilience, ingenuity, and planning, to flourish or survive within dynamic and sometimes unpredictable social and natural milieux.
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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 P�tzcuaro 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.

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 promote these processes. Traditional approaches to the "intensification question" emphasize population pressure, climate change, bureaucratic management, or even land degradation as prerequisites for the onset of new or changing strategies, or the construction and maintenance of agricultural landscapes. Most often these factors are modeled as external forces outside the realm of human decision-making, but recent archaeological research presents an alternative to this suggesting that subsistence intensification is the result of human driven strategies for power, prestige and status stemming from internal conditions within a group. When responding to environmental adversity, human groups were less frequently the victims, as they have been repeatedly portrayed. Instead human groups were often vigorous actors, responding with resilience, ingenuity, and planning, to flourish or survive within dynamic and sometimes unpredictable social and natural milieux.

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