Growing in Scarcity: Pre-Hispanic Rain-Fed Agriculture in the Semi-Arid and Frost-Prone Andean Altiplano (Bolivia)

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dc.creatorCruz, Pablo
dc.creatorJoffre, Richard
dc.creatorSaintenoy, Thibault
dc.creatorVacher, Jean Joinville
dc.date2024-05-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-25T20:21:23Z
dc.date.available2026-02-25T20:21:23Z
dc.descriptionAncient Andean agricultural landscapes have been the subject of a large number of archaeological and agro-ecological studies, which generally refer to regions with favourable environmental conditions or, in the case of arid and semi-arid environments, those with irrigation facilities. The aim of this article is to present and analyse the pre-Hispanic rain-fed farming systems widely represented in two adjacent regions of Bolivia’s arid and cold southern Altiplano. The search for archaeological agricultural areas combined aerial analysis and field surveys. Agro-ecological characterisation was based on historical and ethnographic studies of the region’s present-day populations. Despite their geographical proximity, similar environmental conditions, and same agropastoral way of life, the typology of cultivated areas developed in the southern altiplano differs significantly. Within this same framework of adaptation and resilience, the sectorisation of agricultural systems observed in these two regions reveals a regional productive specialisation that favoured internal exchanges and exchanges with other regions. These differences are related to two models of non-centralised, low-inequality societies—one strongly based on cohesion and the other characterised by greater fragmentation and social conflict—underlining the limits of strict environmental determinism in shaping agricultural landscapes. These results provide new food for thought in the debate on the use and value of rain-fed agricultural practices and more broadly on the diversity of adaptations by human societies in extreme and unstable environmental contexts.
dc.descriptionFil: Cruz, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Unidad Ejecutora en Ciencias Sociales Regionales y Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Unidad Ejecutora en Ciencias Sociales Regionales y Humanidades; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Joffre, Richard. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Francia. Université Montpellier II; Francia
dc.descriptionFil: Saintenoy, Thibault. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio; España. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
dc.descriptionFil: Vacher, Jean Joinville. Institute of Research for Development; Francia
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dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/237055
dc.identifierCruz, Pablo; Joffre, Richard; Saintenoy, Thibault; Vacher, Jean Joinville; Growing in Scarcity: Pre-Hispanic Rain-Fed Agriculture in the Semi-Arid and Frost-Prone Andean Altiplano (Bolivia); Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Land; 13; 5; 3-5-2024; 1-22
dc.identifier2073-445X
dc.identifierCONICET Digital
dc.identifierCONICET
dc.identifier.urihttps://ri.unju.edu.ar/handle/123456789/365
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/land13050619
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/5/619
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/
dc.subjectANDES
dc.subjectLANDSCAPE MAPPING
dc.subjectPREHISPANIC AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectRAIN-FED CULTIVATION
dc.subjectTRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.titleGrowing in Scarcity: Pre-Hispanic Rain-Fed Agriculture in the Semi-Arid and Frost-Prone Andean Altiplano (Bolivia)
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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