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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 259-282 pages with maps, charts, figures, tables, photographs and cited references. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. American Antiquity Volume 40, number 3 complete issue. First edition. A series of hypotheses concerning the subsistence role of prehistoric sunken field agriculture are developed and evaluated in light of distributional studies of sunken fields along the entire Peruvian coast and excavations at one sunken field locality in the Chilca Valley. Our data suggest that (1) sunken fields occupy distinctive natural topographic lows; (2) sunken field agriculture developed late in the prehispanic sequence; (3) sunken field cultivation was a minor field system which, except at Chilca, was never extended to anywhere near the limits of its small potential; and (4) the factors which stimulated the initial construction of sunken fields at Chilca remain poorly understood. Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners else better than very good.…

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. Vol 61, No 1, pp. 125-132, Map, Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a Pamphlet, else VG.