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.