Rain-fed cultivation in drylands—especially in arid and hyper-arid areas—is often considered to play a minor role in human subsistence. Drawing upon the results of ethnoarchaeological research in North Africa, this paper reviews non-irrigated agricultural practices in the absence of anthropogenic water-harvesting structures, and presents a proposal for how such practices can be identified in the drylands of the past. An improved understanding of the long-term development of rain-fed cultivation augments our knowledge of past land-use strategies and can inform future models of sustainable agriculture in some of the world’s driest regions.
The archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of rain-fed cultivation in arid and hyper-arid North Africa / C. Lancelotti, S. Biagetti, A. Zerboni, D. Usai, M. Madella. - In: ANTIQUITY. - ISSN 0003-598X. - 93:370(2019), pp. 1026-1039. [10.15184/aqy.2019.109]
The archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of rain-fed cultivation in arid and hyper-arid North Africa
A. Zerboni;
2019
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Rain-fed cultivation in drylands—especially in arid and hyper-arid areas—is often considered to play a minor role in human subsistence. Drawing upon the results of ethnoarchaeological research in North Africa, this paper reviews non-irrigated agricultural practices in the absence of anthropogenic water-harvesting structures, and presents a proposal for how such practices can be identified in the drylands of the past. An improved understanding of the long-term development of rain-fed cultivation augments our knowledge of past land-use strategies and can inform future models of sustainable agriculture in some of the world’s driest regions.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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