Canal irrigation in prehistoric Mexico
Subtitle: the sequence of technological change
By: William E. Doolittle.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Canals -- Mexico; Irrigation -- Mexico; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities
Description: Prehistoric farmers in Mexico invented irrigation, developed it into a science, and used it widely. Indeed, many of the canal systems still in use in Mexico today were originally begun well before the discovery of the New World. In this comprehensive study, the author synthesizes and extensively analyzes all that is currently known about the development and use of irrigation technology in prehistoric Mexico from about 1200 B.C. until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century A.D.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [175]-198.
Includes index.