caa a22 4500 469075589 CHVBK 20180323132934.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01271026 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01271026 Kohler Timothy Santa Fe Institute, Washington State University, 1660 Old Pecos Trail, 87501, Santa Fe, NM, USA aut Prehistoric human impact on the environment in the upland North American Southwest [Elektronische Daten] [Timothy Kohler] Some early Anasazi (prehistoric Puebloan) agricultural practices tended to be land-extensive and made substantial impact on the forests, primarily through clearing by burning. Later agriculture tended to be more land-intensive, but longer duration occupations by larger populations also had significant local effects on the forests, through both clearing for fields and through intensive harvest of firewood. Strategies of early Anasazi agriculture that resulted in forest depletion probably also tended to maximize the power output of the economic systems, and therefore must have had considerable selective value. Depletion of various wild resources was an important impetus to culture change, leading, in conjunction with population growth, to more intensive farming practices, and contributing to the tendency to aggregate in large villages at various times in the prehistoric period. Human Sciences Press, Inc, 1992 Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 13/4(1992-06-01), 255-268 0199-0039 13:4<255 1992 13 11111 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kohler Timothy Santa Fe Institute, Washington State University, 1660 Old Pecos Trail, 87501, Santa Fe, NM, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 13/4(1992-06-01), 255-268 0199-0039 13:4<255 1992 13 11111 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer