Top-down or bottom-up: Rural settlement and raised field agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 404-430

  Janusek, John Wayne ^a   Kolata, Alan L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Lake Titicaca; Raised fields; Rural settlement; Tiwanaku

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944254270     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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