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- Title
AGRARIAN FEATURES, FARMSTEADS, AND HOMESTEADS IN THE RÍO BEC NUCLEAR ZONE, MEXICO.
- Authors
Lemonnier, Eva; Vannière, Boris
- Abstract
With its overall settlement pattern more dispersed than those of other contemporary Maya sites, and many associated land use features still preserved, the spatial layout of the Río Bec nuclear zone (159 ha) leads us to give priority to the hypothesis of a production economy based on infield agriculture. Through a multidisciplinary and multiscalar research strategy, including several geoarchaeological methods developed on three different spatial scales, it is possible to forward a model of territorial occupation and land use for the Río Bec apogee period (a.d. 700–850). Geographical and archaeological data, along with chronological and spatial analyses, allow us to reconstruct a built field system made up of distinct agricultural production units. From a socioeconomic perspective, the model suggests that agricultural production was managed at the household scale and that each unit or farmstead was distinct and autonomous from its neighbors.
- Subjects
MEXICO; NUCLEAR-weapon-free zones; AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL geology; SOCIOECONOMICS; HOUSEHOLDS
- Publication
Ancient Mesoamerica, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 2, p397
- ISSN
0956-5361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0956536113000242