Hello. Clark Erickson, at the U of Pennsylvania Museum, has done some
experimental archaeology with raised beds in Lake Titicaca; the
farmers had such success with the archaeologically-known methods they
started doing it on their own time, too. I don't have a reference
handy, but have forwarded this to him and maybe he'll write in.
Naomi.
>I don't have the specifics, but farmers in the altiplano of South
>America (Peru?) have had good luck with traditional crops grown the
>manner which archaeologists discovered. If I remember correctly,
>this involves raised beds of considerable size, surrounded by
>irrigation moats (which also included fish!) The archaeologists
>found big squares and ditches all over the landscape, and together
>with the indigenous peoples, reconstructed the ancient system.
>
>Someone help me out with the details of who, where, when, and what crops!
>
>Monique Reed
>Texas A&M
>
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>Dear colleagues!
>I have a request from an Institute of Organic Farming whether there
>are well documented instances concerning the implementation of
>archaeobotanical results in modern agricultural practices, notably
>in the domain of organic farming, plant breeding, crop
>improvement... Can anybody give me some references?
>Many thanks,
>Marianne
>
>a.o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Marianne Kohler-Schneider
>Arbeitsgruppe Archäobotanik
>Institut für Botanik
>Universität für Bodenkultur
>Gregor. Mendelstr. 33
>A-1180 Wien, Austria
>Tel.: 0043 1 47654 3160
>Fax: 0043 1 47654 3180
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Naomi F. Miller
www: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology (MASCA)
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