Irrigation and the Cuicatec Ecosystem: A Study of Agriculture and Civilization in North Central Oaxaca

Joseph W. Hopkins III

In this volume, Joseph W. Hopkins III reconstructs the history of the Cuicatec region in Oaxaca, Mexico, from the Aztec empire through the Spanish conquest and into the twentieth century. Hopkins also discusses the archaeology of the region with a particular focus on irrigation systems and agriculture. From 1968 to 1970, Hopkins conducted an archaeological survey and limited excavation in this region, and he presents the results of that fieldwork here.

This book is Volume 2 of the subseries Studies in Latin American Ethnohistory & Archaeology and a companion to A Fuego y Sangre: Early Zapotec Imperialism in the Cuicatlán, Cañada, Oaxaca, by Elsa M. Redmond (1983).

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Publisher: Museum of Anthropology

Year of Publication: 1984

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Pages: 148

Price: $15

Print ISBN: 978-0-915703-00-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-951538-09-5

Monograph Series / Number: Memoirs No. 17

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