Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes

About this book

Examines both ancient and current agricultural field types and technologies in the Andes and Amazonia.

Contents

PART I. FIELDS AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES; 1. Introduction: research on indigenous cultivation in the Americas; 2. Classification of field types; 3. Crops, tools, and soft technology; PART II. AMAZONIAN CULTIVATION; 4. A diversity of Habitats and field systems; 5. Fields of the Mojo, Campa, Bora, Shipibo, and Karinya; 6. Pre-European riverine cultivation; 7. Pre-European forest cultivation; PART III. ANDEAN IRRIGATION AND TERRACING; 8. Irrigated fields; 9. Terraced fields; 10. Terrace and irrigation origins and abandonment in the Colca valley; PART IV. RAISED AND DRAINED FIELDS; 11. Lost systems of cultivation; 12. The Mojos raised fields; 13. The Titicaca raised fields; 14. Ditched fields, drainage canals, and river canalization; PART V. CONCLUSIONS; 15. Implications of indigenous agricultural technology; APPENDICES; 1A Cultivated plants of South America; 1B Roster of cultivated plants by species name

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