Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes. By Maria C. Bruno. 2024. University of Colorado Press, Denver. 232 pp.

  • Daniel A. Villar Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK
Keywords: Review, Sustainability, Andes, Traditional agriculture, Archaeology, Archaeobotany

Author Biography

Daniel A. Villar, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK

Daniel A. Villar is affiliated with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and the Department of Anthropology at Durham University.

References

Bruno, M. C. 2003. Formative Agriculture? The Status of Chenopodium Domestication and Intensification at Chiripa, Bolivia (1500 B.C.-100 B.C.). MSc Thesis, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, USA.

Bruno, M. C., and W. T. Whitehead. 2003. Chenopodium Cultivation and Formative Period Agriculture at Chiripa, Bolivia. Latin American Antiquity 14:339–355. DOI:10.2307/3557565.

Erickson, C. L. 1992. Prehistoric Landscape Management in the Andean Highlands: Raised Field Agriculture and Its Environmental Impact. Population and Environment 13:285–300. DOI:10.1007/bf01271028.

Jago, S., and J. S. Borrell. 2024. Agrobiodiversity Conservation Enables Sustainable and Equitable Land Sparing. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39:877–880. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2024.08.009.

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Published
2025-09-05
How to Cite
Villar, D. A. (2025). Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes. By Maria C. Bruno. 2024. University of Colorado Press, Denver. 232 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 16(1), 93-95. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.16.1.2025.1941
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