[PDF.56dt] A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present

A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present

[PDF.ps54] A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present

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 | #5940096 in Books |  1998 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.03 x6.41 x9.35l, | File type: PDF | 319 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A geographer takes new look at 'unfavourable' wetlands.|By davids@dino.coacade.uv.mx|'A Favored Place' is a highly complex analysis of wetland history, tracing its development through pre-Columbian times to the present. This is no easy task. Siemens' book guides us through detailed archaelogical aspects, how Spanish conquerors 'read' the land they found themselves in on t|About the Author|Alfred Siemens is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

The wetlands of the San Juan Basin in Central Veracruz, Mexico, were a favored place for their ancient inhabitants. Around the fifth century A.D., Prehispanic people built an extensive network of canals and raised fields along the margins of lakes and rivers that allowed for almost year-round intensive agriculture. Alfred Siemens' discovery of the remaining traces of this ancient agricultural system in the 1970s led him to uncover fifteen centuries of land-use history in...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present   |  Alfred H. Siemens. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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