Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Understanding the Past for the Future. Edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt. 2015. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 392 pp.

Author Biography

Andrew Gillreath-Brown, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, USA.

Andrew Gillreath-Brown is a PhD student at Washington State University interested in prehistoric agriculture, paleoclimatic reconstructions, and human-environmental relationships, situated mostly in the United States Southwest.

References

Benson, L. V., D. K. Ramsey, D. W. Stahle, and K. L. Petersen. 2013. Some Thoughts on the Factors that Controlled Prehistoric Maize Production in the American Southwest with Application to Southwestern Colorado. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:2869–2880. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2013.03.013.

Bocinsky, R. K., J. Rush, K. W. Kintigh, and T. A. Kohler. 2016. Exploration and Exploitation in the Macrohistory of the Pre-Hispanic Pueblo Southwest. Science Advances 2:e1501532. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1501532.

Brown, A. D. 2016. Looking Outward from the Village: The Contingencies of Soil Moisture on the Prehistoric Farmed Landscape Near Goodman Point Pueblo. Master’s Thesis, Department of Geography, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Available from UNT Digital Library: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862755/. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.17680.00004.

d’Alpoim Guedes, J., S. W. Manning, and R. K. Bocinsky. 2015. A 5,500-Year Model of Changing Crop Niches on the Tibetan Plateau. Current Anthropology 57:517–522. DOI:10.1086/687255.

Dominguez, S., and K. E. Kolm. 2005. Beyond Water Harvesting: A Soil Hydrology Perspective on Traditional Southwestern Agricultural Technology. American Antiquity 70:732–765. DOI:10.2307/40035872.

Ford, R. I. 1992. An Ecological Analysis Involving the Population of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, with a new introduction. Garland Press, New York, NY.

Huckell, B. B., L. W. Huckell, and K. K. Benedict. 2002. Maize Agriculture and the Rise of Mixed Farming-Foraging Economies in Southeastern Arizona during the Second Millennium BC. In Traditions, Transitions and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Sarah H. Schlanger, pp. 137–159. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, CO.

Jansen, E., J. Overpeck, K. R. Briffa, J. C. Duplessy, F. Joos, V. Masson-Delmotte, D. Olago, B. Otto-Bliesner, W. R. Peltier, S. Rahmstorf, and R. Ramesh. 2007. Paleoclimate. In Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H. L. Miller. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6.html. Accessed on October 14, 2016.

Kohler, T. A. 2012. Modeling Agricultural Productivity and Farming Effort. In Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages: Models of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology, edited by T. A. Kohler and M. D. Varien, pp. 85–112. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Mabry, J. B. 2002. The Role of Irrigation in the Transition to Agriculture and Sedentism in the Southwest: A Risk Management Model. In Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by S. H. Schlanger, pp. 178–199. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, CO.

Mabry, J. B. 2005. Diversity in Early Southwestern Farming and Optimization Models of Transitions to Agriculture. In Subsistence and Resource Use Strategies of Early Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona, edited by M. W. Diehl, pp. 113–152. Anthropological Papers, No. 34. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, AZ.

Muenchrath, D. A. 1995. Productivity, Morphology, Phenology, and Physiology of a Desert-adapted Native American Maize (Zea mays L.) Cultivar. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/10967/. Accessed on September 19, 2016.

Muenchrath, D. A., M. Kuratomi, J. A. Sandor, and J. A. Homburg. 2002. Observational Study of Maize Production Systems of Zuni Farmers in Semiarid New Mexico. Journal of Ethnobiology 22:1–33.

Nabhan, G. P. 1979. The Ecology of Floodwater Farming in Arid Southwestern North America. Agro-ecosystems 5:245–255. DOI:10.1016/0304-3746(79)90004-0.

Nabhan, G. P., ed. 2016. Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Parcero-Oubiña, C., P. Fábrega-Álvarez, D. Salazar, A. Troncoso, F. Hayashida, M. Pino, C. Borie, and E. Echenique. 2016. Ground to Air and Back Again: Archaeological Prospection to Characterize Prehispanic Agricultural Practices in the High-altitude Atacama (Chile). Quaternary International. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.050.

Phillips Jr, D. A. 2009. Adoption and Intensification of Agriculture in the North American Southwest: Notes Toward a Quantitative Approach. American Antiquity 74:691–707.

Quiring, S. M. 2009. Developing Objective Operational Definitions for Monitoring Drought. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48:1217–1229. DOI:10.1175/2009JAMC2088.1.

Vierra, B. J., and R. I. Ford. 2015. Foragers and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Kiva 73:117–130. DOI:10.1179/kiv.2007.73.2.002.

Werth, L. C. 2007. Characterization and Classification of Native American Maize Landraces from the Southwestern United States. Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 14628. Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=15627&context=rtd. Accessed on September 19, 2016.

Wills, W. H. 1995. Archaic Foraging and the Beginning of Food Production in the American Southwest. In Last Hunters-First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture, edited by T. Price and A. Gebauer, pp. 215–242. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.

Published
2016-11-23
How to Cite
Gillreath-Brown, A. (2016). Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Understanding the Past for the Future. Edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt. 2015. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 392 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 7(1), 99–103. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.7.1.2016.810
Section
Reviews