This study provides a detailed history and summation of Pueblo agricultural history on the Colorado Plateau. This history is used is used as a method for examining their agricultural practices, technologies, crops, energetics, and social structures, in order to find solutions to contemporary agricultural problems. This examination shows that traditional pre-contact Pueblo agriculture relied on an intimate knowledge of environmental systems (ecology),...

"Archaeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from ca. 13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this time, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor projects, mound building, and population aggregation formed...