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, Verónica Natalia, Roberts, Patrick, Meléndez, Ana Soledad, Tromp, Mónica, Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
Formato:	Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2022
Materias:	Northwestern Argentina Agrarian landscape phytoliths subtropical forests and grasslands Arqueología
Acceso en línea:	http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/14422
Aporte de:	FILO Digital - Repositorio de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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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, Verónica Natalia 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
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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
format	Artículo publishedVersion Artículo
author	Zuccarelli, Verónica Natalia Roberts, Patrick Meléndez, Ana Soledad Tromp, Mónica Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
author_facet	Zuccarelli, Verónica Natalia Roberts, Patrick Meléndez, Ana Soledad Tromp, Mónica Quesada, Marcos Nicolás
author_sort	Zuccarelli, Verónica Natalia
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
publishDate	2022
url	http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/14422
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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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