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raised fields

Description: Elevated agricultural plots separated by lower channels, used to cultivate crops and manage water in archaeological and agricultural contexts.
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An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon
2000 · Clark L. Erickson · Nature · 332
The origins of Amazonian landscapes: Plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America
2020 · Jose Iriarte, Sarah Elliott, et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews · 189
Effect of saline land reclamation by constructing the “Raised Field -Shallow Trench” pattern on agroecosystems in Yellow River Delta
2021 · Qiuli Hu, Ying Zhao, et al. · Agricultural Water Management · 146
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes
2002 · Linda A. Newson · Hispanic American Historical Review · 146
A review of human and natural changes in Maya Lowland wetlands over the Holocene
2009 · Tim Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews · 141
The prehistoric agricultural landscape of the central Maya lowlands: An examination of local variability in a regional context
1990 · Scott L. Fedick, Anabel Ford · World Archaeology · 125
The Hydraulic Hypothesis Revisited: Lake Titicaca Basin Raised Fields in Theoretical Perspective
1994 · Charles Stanish · Latin American Antiquity · 123
Pollen evidence for early settlement and agriculture in northern Belize
1994 · John G. Jones · Palynology · 103
Levels, sources and risk assessment of trace elements in wetland soils of a typical shallow freshwater lake, China
2012 · Haifeng Gao, Junhong Bai, et al. · Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment · 96
Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
2010 · José Iriarte, Bruno Glaser, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 94
Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics In Ecuador
1991 · Gregory Knapp · 94
Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia: a prehistoric green revolution or a flood risk mitigation strategy?
2010 · Umberto Lombardo, Elisa Canal-Beeby, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 92
Agriculture in North America on the Eve of Contact: A Reassessment
1992 · William E. Doolittle · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 91
Beyond State Collapse: Rural History, Raised Fields, and Pastoralism in the South Andes
1992 · Gray Graffam · American Anthropologist · 81
Integrated palaeoecology and archaeology – a powerful approach for understanding pre-Columbian Amazonia
2012 · Francis E. Mayle, José Iriarte · Journal of Archaeological Science · 80
Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form
1994 · Andrew Sluyter · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 77
Irrigation, raised fields and state management: Wittfogel redux?
1996 · Karl W. Butzer · Antiquity · 67
Pre-Columbian Earthworks in Coastal Amazonia
2010 · Stéphen Rostain · Diversity · 64
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Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast
2008 · Stéphen Rostain · Springer eBooks · 63
Beyond Raised Fields: Exploring Farming Practices and Processes of Agricultural Change in the Ancient Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes
2014 · Maria C. Bruno · American Anthropologist · 62
Human–environment interactions in pre-Columbian Amazonia: The case of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia
2013 · Umberto Lombardo, Sebastian Denier, et al. · Quaternary International · 58
Soil Animals and Pedogenesis
2016 · Luis Cunha, George G. Brown, et al. · Soil Science · 56
Pre-Columbian Earthworks in the Riberalta Region of the Bolivian Amazon
2010 · Sanna Saunaluoma · Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia · 52
The origins of Andean irrigation
1995 · K. S. Zimmerer · Nature · 52
Hydraulic Agriculture in the American Tropics: Forms, Measures, and Recent Research
1982 · William M. Denevan · Elsevier eBooks · 52
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