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Article
Authorship
KORSTANJE, MARIA ALEJANDRA
;
Cuenya, Patricia
Date
2008
Publishing House and Editing Place
Oxbow Books
Magazine
Environmental Archaeology. The Journal of Human Paleoecology
Oxbow Books
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Based on field and soils data we discuss some new trends in agricultural archaeological studies from independent evidence of Architecture and Artefacts. As a result of our investigations we recognized, not only the vegetal species cultivated in ancient fields (dated in ca. 800 a.C.), but also distinguished some of the agricultural practices such as crop rotation and alternation; use of animal fertilizers, irrigation resources, and abandonment of the site. From the point of view of residential e...
Based on field and soils data we discuss some new trends in agricultural archaeological studies from independent evidence of Architecture and Artefacts. As a result of our investigations we recognized, not only the vegetal species cultivated in ancient fields (dated in ca. 800 a.C.), but also distinguished some of the agricultural practices such as crop rotation and alternation; use of animal fertilizers, irrigation resources, and abandonment of the site. From the point of view of residential enclosures, we have some interesting results about activity areas, floor definitions, and reoccupations. Also corral episodes may be distinguished. Two Formative sites from north-western Argentina high valleys at the province of Catamarca were analyzed for this study
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