Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range

In this paper we review the growing evidence of anthropogenic landscapespresent in the semi-deciduous neotropical forest biomes of eastern NW Argentina,which have remained relatively neglected in favour of arid to semi-arid western Andean regions. The evidence gathered in de El Alto-Ancasti provides...

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Autores principales: Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica, Roberts, Patrick, Meléndez, Ana Soledad, Tromp, Mónica, Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
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Publicado: 2022
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Northwestern Argentina
Agrarian landscape
phytoliths
subtropical forests and grasslands
Arqueología
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/14422
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spelling I28-R156-filodigital-144222024-11-06T19:45:28Z Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica Roberts, Patrick Meléndez, Ana Soledad Tromp, Mónica Quesada, Marcos Nicolás Northwestern Argentina Agrarian landscape phytoliths subtropical forests and grasslands Arqueología In this paper we review the growing evidence of anthropogenic landscapespresent in the semi-deciduous neotropical forest biomes of eastern NW Argentina,which have remained relatively neglected in favour of arid to semi-arid western Andean regions. The evidence gathered in de El Alto-Ancasti provides animportant case study where multidisciplinary methodologies have beenapplied to sites that document the emergence and variability in food productionstrategies across the eastern Andean forests and grasslands of NWArgentina. We discuss evidence offarming structures from archaeological surveys, plant management from phy-tolith analysis, and the tempo and nature of settlement from archaeological excavations undertaken at a variety of sites in the El Alto Ancasti mountainrange. We suggest that the communities that inhabited this region during thefirst millennium AD (ca. 1500–1000 BP) established a strategy of ‘overlappingpatchworks’ of food production that were able to contend with considerableseasonal variability. We argue that, through the use of cross-channelling, low river areas, erosion control techniques and the establishment of mesothermal crops,including maize, legumes, and tubers, throughout the region, these societies adopted flexible strategies to adapt to life in a region prone to climatic change 2022-06-09T04:06:34Z 2022-06-09T04:06:34Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo doi:10.1080/00438243.2021.1997639 Zuccarelli Freire, V., Roberts, P., Meléndez, A. S., Tromp, M. y Quesada, M. (2021). Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre- Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range. World Archaeology, 53(4), 615-642. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1997639 issn:1470-1375 http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/14422 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf 615-642 World Archaeology;53(4)
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topic Northwestern Argentina
Agrarian landscape
phytoliths
subtropical forests and grasslands
Arqueología
spellingShingle Northwestern Argentina
Agrarian landscape
phytoliths
subtropical forests and grasslands
Arqueología
Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica
Roberts, Patrick
Meléndez, Ana Soledad
Tromp, Mónica
Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
topic_facet Northwestern Argentina
Agrarian landscape
phytoliths
subtropical forests and grasslands
Arqueología
description In this paper we review the growing evidence of anthropogenic landscapespresent in the semi-deciduous neotropical forest biomes of eastern NW Argentina,which have remained relatively neglected in favour of arid to semi-arid western Andean regions. The evidence gathered in de El Alto-Ancasti provides animportant case study where multidisciplinary methodologies have beenapplied to sites that document the emergence and variability in food productionstrategies across the eastern Andean forests and grasslands of NWArgentina. We discuss evidence offarming structures from archaeological surveys, plant management from phy-tolith analysis, and the tempo and nature of settlement from archaeological excavations undertaken at a variety of sites in the El Alto Ancasti mountainrange. We suggest that the communities that inhabited this region during thefirst millennium AD (ca. 1500–1000 BP) established a strategy of ‘overlappingpatchworks’ of food production that were able to contend with considerableseasonal variability. We argue that, through the use of cross-channelling, low river areas, erosion control techniques and the establishment of mesothermal crops,including maize, legumes, and tubers, throughout the region, these societies adopted flexible strategies to adapt to life in a region prone to climatic change
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author Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica
Roberts, Patrick
Meléndez, Ana Soledad
Tromp, Mónica
Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
author_facet Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica
Roberts, Patrick
Meléndez, Ana Soledad
Tromp, Mónica
Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
author_sort Zuccarelli Freire, Verónica
title Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
title_short Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
title_full Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
title_fullStr Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
title_full_unstemmed Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes : pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range
title_sort managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the andes : pre-columbian agrarian landscapes in the el alto-ancasti mountain range
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