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Title
Seasonality and ecosystem response in two prehistoric agricultural regions of central Arizona
Description
This thesis explores the independent effects of the manipulation of rocks into alignments, prehistoric farming, and season on soil properties in two areas with a history of prehistoric agriculture in central Arizona, Pueblo la Plata within the Agua Fria National Monument (AFNM), and an archaeological site north of the Phoenix basin along Cave Creek (CC). Soil properties, annual herbaceous biomass and the physical properties of alignments and surface soils were measured and compared across the landscape, specifically on: 1) agricultural rock alignments that were near the archaeological site 2) geologically formed rock alignments that were located 0.5-1 km away from settlements; and 3) areas both near and far from settlements where rock alignments were absent. At AFNM, relatively well-built rock alignments have altered soil properties and processes while less-intact alignments at CC have left few legacies.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Trujillo, Jolene Eve (Author)
- Hall, Sharon J (Thesis advisor)
- Collins, Scott L. (Committee member)
- Spielmann, Katherine A. (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Ecology
- Soil Sciences
- Biology
- Agua Fria National Monument (AFNM)
- Arizona
- Cave Creek
- potential nitrogen mineralization
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- semi-arid region
- Bioclimatology
- Soil ecology--Arizona.
- Soil Ecology
- Indians of North America--Agriculture--Arizona.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric--Arizona.
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
Geographic Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vi, 47 p. : ill., maps
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8859
Statement of Responsibility
by Jolene Eve Trujillo
Description Source
Retrieved on Oct. 10, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-47)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Biology
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