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         2006   Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY. Book Order Form

 

         2006   Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. vii-viii. Table of Contents

 

         2006  Intensification, Political Economy, and the Farming Community; In Defense Of A Bottom-Up Perspective Of The Past. IN Agricultural Strategies. Edited by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish, Cotsen Institute, Los Angeles, pp. 233-265. PDF Version

 

         2006  El valor actual de los Camellones de cultivo precolombinos: Experiencias del Perú y Bolivia. EN Agricultura ancestral. Camellones y albarradas: Contexto social, usos y retos del pasado y del presente. Redactado por Francisco Valdez, Ediciones Abya-Yala, Quito, pp. 315-339.. PDF Version

 

                    [with William Balée] 2006  Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology. IN Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. 1-17. PDF Version of Introductory Chapter of Book; see below for Chapters 7: “The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia” & Chapter 8: “The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon”].

 

                    2006 The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon. IN Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. 235-278.  PDF Version.

 

                    [with William Balée] 2006  The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia. IN Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson, Columbia University Press, NY, pp. 187-234.  PDF Version.

 

         2003  Agricultural Landscapes as World Heritage: Raised Field Agriculture in Bolivia and Peru. IN Managing Change: Sustainable Approaches to the Conservation of the Built Environment. Edited by Jeanne-Marie Teutonico and Frank Matero, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, pp. 181-204. PDF Version

 

                    2003  Historical Ecology and Future Explorations. IN Amazonian Dark Earths: Origins, Properties, Management. Edited by J. Lehmann, D. Kern, B. Glaser, and W. Woods, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 455-500.. PDF Version

 

                      2001  Pre-Columbian Roads of the Amazon. Expedition 43(2):21-30. PDF Version

 

         2001  Pre-Columbian Fish Farming in the Amazon. Expedition. 43(1):7-8. Web Version

 

                     2001  Pre-Columbian Fish Farming in the Amazon. Expedition. 43(1):7-8. PDF Version

 

               2000 Los caminos prehispanicos de la amazonia boliviana. IN Caminos precolombinos: las vias, los ingenieros y los viajeros. Edited by Leonor Herrera and Marianne Cardal de Schrimpff, Instituto Colombino de Antropologia e Historia, Bogota, pp. 15-42. PDF Version

         2000 An Artificial Landscape-scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon. Nature 408:190-193. PDF Version

         2000 The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Pre-Columbian Built Landscape. IN Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Edited by David Lentz, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 311-356.  High Resolution PDF version

         2000 The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Pre-Columbian Built Landscape. IN Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Edited by David Lentz, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 311-356.  Medium Resolution PDF version

         2000 Lomas de ocupación en los Llanos de Moxos. IN Arqueología de Tierras Bajas. Edited by Alicia Durán Coirolo and Roberto Bracco Boksar, Comisión Nacional de Arqueologia, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, pp. 207-226. PDF version (English version available below)

         2000 Occupation Mounds (Lomas) in the Llanos de Moxos. English version of 2000 publication in Spanish Lomas de ocupación en los Llanos de Moxos.  IN Arqueología de Tierras Bajas. Edited by Alicia Durán Coirolo and Roberto Bracco Boksar, Comisión Nacional de Arqueologia, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, pp. 207-226. PDF version

         2000 Review of Human Impact on Ancient Environments by Charles Redman. Latin American Antiquity 11(4):433. PDF version

         1999 Neo-environmental determinism and agrarian "collapse" in Andean prehistory. Antiquity 73:634-642. PDF version

         1999 Agricultura en camellones prehispánicos en las tierras bajas de Bolivia: Posibilidades de desarrollo en el trópico húmedo.  IN Los camellones y chinampas tropicales: Memorias del Simposio-Taller Internacional sobre Camellones y Chinampas Tropicales. edited by Juan José Jiménez-Orsornio and Véronique M. Rorive, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónomo de Yucatán, Mérida, pp. 39-52. PDF version [Spanish version of Erickson 1994 Raised Fields as a Sustainable Agricultural System from Amazonia. See below]

         1998 Applied Archaeology and Rural Development: Archaeology's Potential Contribution to the Future. IN Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America. edited by M. Whiteford and S. Whiteford, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle, NJ, pp. 34-45. PDF version

         1995 Archaeological Perspectives on Ancient Landscapes of the Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon. In Archaeology in the American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Applications. edited by Peter Stahl, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 66-95. PDF version

         1995 Review of The Onset of Inequality before the Arrival of the Inka. by Christine Hastorf,  Latin American Antiquity  6(2):186-187. PDF version

         1994 Methodological Considerations in the Study of Ancient Andean Field Systems. In The Archaeology of Garden and Field, edited by Kathryn Gleason and Naomi Miller, The University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 111-15. PDF version

         1994 Raised Fields as a Sustainable Agricultural System from Amazonia.  Paper presented in the Symposium Recovery of Indigenous Technology and Resources in Bolivia at the 18th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, March 10-12.. PDF version [Published in Spanish as Erickson, Clark 1999 Agricultura en camellones prehispánicos en las tierras bajas de Bolivia: Posibilidades de desarrollo en el trópico húmedo.  IN Los camellones y chinampas tropicales: Memorias del Simposio-Taller Internacional sobre Camellones y Chinampas Tropicales. edited by Juan José Jiménez-Orsornio and Véronique M. Rorive, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónomo de Yucatán, Mérida, pp. 39-52.  PDF version en español: click aqui]

         1993 The Social Organization of Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin. In Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World, Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement No. 7, edited by Vernon Scarborough and Barry Isaac, JAI Press, pp. 369-426 PDF version

        1992 Prehistoric Landscape Management in the Andean Highlands: Raised Field Agriculture and its Environmental Impact. Population and Environment (Special issue "Social Science Perspectives on Environmental Management," edited by Timothy Kohler), 13(4):285-300. PDF version

        1989 (with Kay L. Candler) Raised Fields and Sustainable Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin. In Fragile Lands of Latin America: Strategies for Sustainable Development, edited by John Browder, pp. 230-248, Westview Press, Boulder.  PDF version

        1988 Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Putting Ancient Andean Agriculture Back to Work. Expedition, 30(3):8-16, special volume edited by Karen Mohr Chavez on Andean Archaeology, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. PDF version

         1986 Agricultura en camellones en la cuenca del Lago Titicaca: Aspectos técnicos y su futura. In Andenes y camellones en el Perú Andino: Historia presente y futuro. Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Manuel Burga, pp. 331-350, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima. low resolution PDF version

         1986 Waru waru: Una tecnología agrícola del altiplano prehistórico. In Andenes y camellones en el Peru Andino: Historia, presente y futuro. Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Manuel Burga, pp. 59-84, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Moscazul, Lima. low resolution PDF version

         1987 The Dating of Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru. IN Pre Hispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region, edited by William M. Denevan, Kent Mathewson and Gregory Knapp, pp. 373 383, British Archaeological Reports, International Series, No. 359, Oxford. PDF version

 

         1985 Applications of Prehistoric Andean Technology: Experiments in Raised field agriculture, Huatta, Lake Titicaca, Peru, 1981‑1983.  IN Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, edited by Ian Farrington, pp. 209-232, British Archaeological Reports, International Series, No. 232, Oxford. PDF version

         1980 Sistemas agrícolas prehispánicos en los Llanos de Mojos. America Indígena 40(4):731-755. Mexico. PDF version

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