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“…Even if a bottom-up organization is identified, ethnographic studies suggest it can easily be incorporated into a broader state structure (Hunt & Hunt, 1976). Collective institutions arising from highly mosaiked agricultural landscapes are thought to have emerged in the Indus Valley (Possehl, 1998;Wright, 2010), while similar conditions of subsistence diversification have been identified in the Preceramic Norte Chico region of Perú (Haas et al, 2013;Haas & Creamer, 2006;Shady Solís, 2006;Shady Solís & Leyva, 2003) and in the Middle Horizon Tiwanaku/Late Titicaca area (Bruno, 2014;Bruno & Whitehead, 2003;Capriles, Moore, Domic, & Hastorf, 2014;Janusek, 2008).…”

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Sociopolitical organization, landscape change, and hydraulic engineering in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico: 1250 B.C.–A.D. 1810

Ramón

Johnson

2019

WIREs Water

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The Teotihuacan Valley has witnessed the rise and fall of various civilizations since it was first inhabited by sedentary societies 3,500 years ago. Given its location in a semi‐arid environment, Teotihuacan has featured prominently in debates about the role of water and water management in the development of sedentism, culture, primary states, and large, complex societies. While many previous discussions tended to echo Wittfogel's “hydraulic hypothesis,” focusing on the ability of an elite few to monopolize water resources, we instead turn to a growing corpus of research showing varied water management strategies through time potentially resulting in distinct patterns of social organization. In this palimpsest landscape hydraulic and agricultural strategies were constrained not merely by present environmental conditions, but also by very real and material legacies of previous behavior. We discuss the state of research regarding these adaptations (and social responses) to water scarcity from the Early‐to‐Middle Formative Period (1250–650 B.C.) through the independence of Mexico (A.D. 1810), noting how previous fundamental assumptions about agriculture and hydraulic management in the Teotihuacan Valley have led to a significant number of neglected concepts and potential adaptations. If we are to address the current destruction of the Teotihuacan Valley's ecological and cultural resources in response to national development and climate change, a historical‐ecological perspective is necessary to disentangle the relevant processes that have shaped the landscape—and the cultures residing within it—to this day. This article is categorized under: Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Engineering Water > Planning Water

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