Clark Erickson, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/
See resources on:
Waru Waru
Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru.
Pre-Columbian Fish Farming in the Amazon
Erickson, Clark. 2000. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Pre-Columbian
Built Landscape. p. 310-356. IN: Imperfect Balance: Landscape
Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Edited by David
Lentz. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/fishweir/articles/Lentzvol.pdf
_____ 24-page PDF
_____ Classic article on human-built landscapes and sustainable
agriculture practices in Bolivia and Peru over last 8,000 years,
featuring raised fields, stone-faced terraces, sunken gardens,
irrigated pastures, and more.
The discovery of over 500 square kilometers of artificial earthworks
that are identified as fish weirs
The native peoples, the Baures, built a vast network of fish weirs,
ponds, canals, and causeways to harvest fish and other aquatic
resources
The availability of protein is considered by some scholars to be
a “limiting factor” in settlement and cultural development in the
Amazon region. The Baure solved this problem by transforming
the landscape into a large artificial fishery.
An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the
Bolivian Amazon by CLARK L. ERICKSON
Nature 408, 190 - 193 (2000) http://www.nature.com
Ancient food for thought by WARWICK BRAY
Nature 408, 145 - 146 (2000) http://www.nature.com
Altogether, some excellent resources for permaculture
teachers to show examples of indigenous knowledge
agriculture, built landscapes, sustainable agriculture
practices, etc.
Regards,
Steve Diver
[permaculture] Raised field and terraced agriculture, built landscapes, Amazon + Andean,
Steve Diver, 03/28/2003