Rainfed altepetl : : modeling institutional and subsistence agriculture in ancient Tepeaca, Mexico / / Aurelio López Corral.

• Superior document: Archaeopress Pre-Columbian archaeology ; 3
• VerfasserIn: López Corral, Aurelio,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress Pre-Columbian archaeology ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (131 pages) :; illustrations.

This work seeks to model food production in ancient Tepeaca, a Late Postclassic (AD 1325-1521) and Early Colonial (16th century) state level-polity settled on the central highlands of Puebla.

Table of Contents

Book cover -- Title -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The goals of this work -- Late Postclassic Tepeaca agriculture: a dualistic model -- Studying agricultural production variability at the household and regional level -- Regional agricultural production variation in Tepeaca: an ethnographic work -- Chapter organization and content -- Chapter 2 Agriculture And Theory -- Subsistence agriculture -- Institutional agriculture -- Environmental and cultural variables that affect agricultural production -- Soils and sediments -- Water availability -- Climate variability -- Agro-ecological variables that affect agricultural production -- Plant Sowing Densities and Farming Strategies -- Cultural factors that affect agricultural production -- Mesoamerican agriculture: rainfed dependent and artificially supplied water system -- Agricultural food shortage -- Chapter 3 The Natural Setting -- The Tepeaca valley region -- The Llanos de San Juan -- The Puebla-Tlaxcala valley -- Chapter 4 Regional History and the Tepeaca Altepetl -- Tepeaca and the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley during the Postclassic -- Regional history and the origins of the Tepeaca altepetl -- Social structure in Tepeaca and the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley in the 16th century AD -- Chapter 5 Traditional Agriculture in the Study Region -- Stages and work in the agricultural cycle -- Field preparation -- Furrowing and sowing -- Animal manure fertilization -- Seed selection -- Chemical fertilization -- Primera, segunda and tercera labor (first, second and third labor) -- Re-sowing -- Second weeding -- Harvest -- Maize stalk upper portion removal -- Storage -- Other aspects of local agriculture -- The use of High Yield Varieties (HYV's) -- Final remarks regarding modern agriculture in the study region -- Chapter 6 Agricultural Production for the Year 2009: the Ethnographic Survey.

Part one: the household survey -- Methodology -- Measuring maize production -- Problems using weight measurement -- Volume as an alternative option for determining production -- Calculation of maize production per hectare -- Length of the cob and weight of the dry kernel -- Length of the ear and weight of the dry kernel -- Initial plant densities, survival plant densities and total productivity -- Result -- Production from the surveyed field -- Soils and production -- Rain patterns and the 2009 canícula drought -- Other negative phenomenon -- Types of rain -- Work inputs to field -- Second part: regional agricultural productivity in the Tepeaca region -- The 2009 maize production in the study region -- Maize yields in the study region according to land class -- Methodology -- Maize yields according to municipio -- The Llanos de San Juan -- The Puebla-Tlaxcala valley -- The Tepeaca valley -- Differential sowing and harvest within the region -- Chapter 7 From Prehispanic Macehualli to Colonial Terrazgueros -- Chichimec conquests in the Cuauhtinchan-Tepeaca region -- The prehispanic macehualli -- Colonial macehualli and terrazguero -- Chapter 8 Agricultural Productivity and Tribute in 16th Century AD Tepeaca -- Land allotment and agricultural tribute in Early Colonial Tepeaca -- Land tenure in Early Colonial Tepeaca -- The braza and the nehuitzantli -- Types of length measures in Tepeaca -- The indigenous rod or tlalquahuitl -- The size of agricultural plot -- Production capacity at the subsistence and institutional agriculture level -- Institutional agriculture production -- Subsistence agriculture production -- Maize production within macehualli/terrazguero households -- Buffering strategies against climatic variability -- Field dispersion -- Agricultural intensification -- The marketplace -- Summary.

Chapter 9 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research -- Modeling agricultural productivity in ancient Tepeaca -- Identifying buffering strategies against cyclical food shortfall -- The dual agricultural economic structure of the Tepeaca altepetl -- Directions for future research -- References -- Appendix 2009 Ethnographic Survey: Field Registers.