UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:
Raised Field Agriculture from an Anthropological Perspective
By Dr. Charles Stanish
Raised field agriculture represents a type of intensification technique
practiced by farmers in the Americas from at least the first millennium BC up
to the 1930's. "Rediscovered" by archaeologists in the 1970's, raised fields
have become one of the principal foci of development agencies in the
developing nations of the Americas. In this talk I discuss the history of
raised field research, its theoretical importance to anthropological
archaeology, and the relationship between archaeology and economic
development.
