Early Watertable Farming on the North Coast of Peru
- 20 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 44 (1) , 138-144
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279195
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.Keywords
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