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020			_a9781607322139
020			_a1607322137
020			_z9781607322030 (hardback : alk.paper)
020			_z160732203X
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aE59.A35 _bS75 2013
082	0	0	_a970.01 _223
245	0	0	_aSoils, climate and society _h[electronic resource] : _barchaeological investigations in ancient America / _cedited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes.
260			_aBoulder : _bUniversity Press of Colorado, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages :) _billustrations, maps ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : a user's guide to soils, climate, and society / Sue Eileen Hayes and John D. Wingard -- Population estimates for anthropogenically enriched soils (Amazonian dark earths) / William I. Woods, William M. Denevan, and Lilian Rebellato -- Soilscape legacies : historical and emerging consequences of socioecological interactions in Honduras / E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazar, and David D. Kuehn -- Drought, subsistence stress, and population dynamics : assessing Mississippian abandonment of the Vacant Quarter / Scott C. Meeks and David G. Anderson -- Mimbres mogollon farming : estimating prehistoric agricultural production during the classic Mimbres period / Michael D. Pool -- So who's counting? : modeling pre-Columbian agricultural potential in the Maya world / Sue Eileen Hayes -- Tilling the fields and building the temples : assessing the relationship among land, labor, and classic Maya elite power in the Copán Valley, Honduras / John D. Wingard --An EPIC challenge : estimating site population in south coastal Peru / Sue Eileen Hayes -- Feeding the masses : new perspectives on Maya agriculture from Ceren, El Salvador / Christine C. Dixon -- How can we know? : the epistemological foundation of ecological modeling in archaeology / Sissel Schroeder.
520			_a"Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate, and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by extension, of agricultural peoples. This volume traces the sociocultural implications of agriculture, agriculture's effects on population, and the theory of carrying capacity, considering the relation of agriculture to the profound social changes that it wrought in the New World. Soil science plays a significant, though varied, role in each case study and is the common component of each analysis. Contributors use information derived from dendrochronology, ground-penetrating radar, soil chemistry, and meteorological records, along with a variety of analytical techniques and computer simulations to determine the amount of food that can be produced in a particular soil and the effects of occupation and cultivation on that soil. They also consider the resulting consequences for future cultivators. Soils, Climate, and Society demonstrates that renewed investigation of agricultural production and demography can answer questions about the past, as well as stimulate further research. It will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, historical ecology and geography, and agricultural history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Much recent archaeological research focuses on social forces as the impetus for cultural change. Soils, Climate and Society, however, focuses on the complex relationship between human populations and the physical environment, particularly the land--the foundation of agricultural production and, by extension, of agricultural peoples.The volume traces the origins of agriculture, the transition to agrarian societies, the sociocultural implications of agriculture, agriculture's effects on population, and the theory of carrying capacity, considering the relation of agriculture to the profound social changes that it wrought in the New World. Soil science plays a significant, though varied, role in each case study, and is the common component of each analysis. Soil chemistry is also of particular importance to several of the studies, as it determines the amount of food that can be produced in a particular soil and the effects of occupation or cultivation on that soil, thus having consequences for future cultivators. Soils, Climate and Society demonstrates that renewed investigation of agricultural production and demography can answer questions about the past, as well as stimulate further research. It will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, historical ecology and geography, and agricultural history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aAgriculture, Prehistoric _zAmerica.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zAmerica.
650		0	_aSoil science in archaeology _zAmerica.
650		0	_aIndians _xAgriculture.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aHayes, Sue Eileen.
700	1		_aWingard, John Davis, _d1958-
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781607322139/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c31943 _d31943