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Salt Production at Hierve El Agua, Oaxaca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William P. Hewitt ,
Marcus C. Winter  and
David A. Peterson
William P. Hewitt
Affiliation:
Apartado Postal 552, 68000 Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Marcus C. Winter
Affiliation:
Centra Regional de Oaxaca, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Pino Suaréz 715, 68000 Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
David A. Peterson
Affiliation:
Museo Frissell, Avenida Independencia 40, 70430 Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Abstract

The water control system at Hierve el Agua, Oaxaca, originally described by Neely (1967), has been widely accepted as an early example of crop irrigation. Various lines of evidence including chemical analysis of the water support an alternative hypothesis that the canals and terraces were designed for salt production through solar evaporation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 799 - 816
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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