Environmental and Social Change in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico, 1521–1600
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- the archaeology-of-power
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 32 (1) , 24-53
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500016327
Abstract
The often disastrous consequences of the introduction of exotic animals into a New World environment are very clearly demonstrated by the sixteenth-century history of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico. A rapid and profound process of environmental degradation, caused by overstocking and indiscriminate grazing of sheep in the post-conquest era, leads us to ask whether the Spanish always acted in their own long-term interests in the New World.Keywords
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