The Good Old DaysWereBetter
Agrarian Collapse and Tectonics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2456541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael E Moseley (0000-0002-9163-8741, Field Museum of Natural History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 773-799 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1983.85.4.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2046779763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 49 |
The theory of plate tectonics contends that the continental plates occupied by humanity are in motion. The hypothesis of agrarian collapse (HAC) holds that gradual, as well as seismic, earth movement can induce ground slope change and modify land-to-sea level relationships, thereby altering the distribution of surface and subsurface runoff, which can lead to abandonment of agricultural land. Mechanical principles underlying ongoing abandonment are detailed for large-scale irrigation systems of the Andean Cordillera Negra. These principles are compatible with a historical scenario integrating urban development at pre-Hispaic Chan Chan, capital of the Chimor polity, with expansion, reform, and collapse of the city's agricultural hinterland. The applicability of the mechanics of agrarian collapse to two other centers of past civilization is briefly considered
Abandonment (legal · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Civilization · Earth science · Geography · Geomorphology · Plate tectonics · Political science · Tectonics · earthquake and tectonic studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies · Law · Paleontology
A Geomorphological Approach to Reconstructing Archaeological Settlement Patterns Based on Surficial Artifact Distribution
Moseley, Michael
Climate Change and El Niño Events in the Ancient Andes
Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization
El diseño de las redes de riego y las escalas sociales de la producción agrícola en el 1er milenio DC (Tebenquiche Chico, Puna de Atacama)
Human niches, abandonment cycling, and climates
The Archaeology of El Niño Events and Other “Natural” Disasters
What Maya Collapse? Terminal Classic Variation in the Maya Lowlands
Landscape and Environment
Building resilience from risk
Holocene landscape change on the Santa Delta, Peru
The beach ridges at Santa, Peru
El Niño flood deposits at Batán Grande, northern Peru
On the waterfront
Holocene coevolution of the physical landscape and human settlement in northern coastal Peru
The birth of El Niño
Prehistoric landscape management in the Andean highlands
Dating the Ascope Canal System
The Spring-Fed Irrigation System of Carrizal, Peru
A Water Heritage Framework
Indigenous agriculture in the Americas
Cultural Elaboration in Prehistoric Coastal Peru
Cultural Responses to Environmental Catastrophes
Reassessing the Developmental and Chronological Relationships of the Formative of Coastal Ecuador
The Pampa de Chaparrí
The Structural Paradox
Cultural impacts of severe droughts in the prehistoric Andes
Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
The Good Old DaysWereBetter
Holocene Biodiversity
An Overview of Peruvian Archaeology (1976-1986)
The Nature of Moche Human Sacrifice
Chan Chan
Oriental despotism
Maya Subsistence
Guitarrero Cave
Life, Land, and Water in Ancient Peru
South American Radiocarbon Dates
Agricultural resource use in an andean coastal ecosystem
Reassessing the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal
The Design and Function of the Intervalley Canal
An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley, Peru
The U-Shaped Structures at Chan Chan, Peru
The Batan Grande-La Leche Archaeological Project
Hydraulic engineering and irrigation agriculture in the Moche Valley, Peru
The Geographical History of the Mesopotamian Plains
Chimu rural administrative centres in the Moche Valley, Peru
Socio-Economic Organization of the Moche Valley, Peru, during the Chimu Occupation of Chan Chan
The Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal
Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal
Early Watertable Farming on the North Coast of Peru
The Archaeological Significance of Mahamaes Cultivation on the Coast of Peru
The Good Old DaysWereBetter
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |