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Early Watertable Farming on the North Coast of Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael West
Michael West*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330
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Abstract

An archaeological example of simple watertable farming dating to the beginning of the Early Intermediate period in the Viru Valley, northern Peru, is reported. This technique was deployed by functionally differentiated segments of a single community, one stressing fishing and the other farming. Analyses of pollens indicate that Zea, Leguminosae, and Solonaceae were grown in two separate field systems.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 138 - 144
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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