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Water Technology in the Andes

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In this entry I describe ancient water technology in the Andes, South America, insofar as it pertains to economic activity. What I do not do here is describe the exclusively ceremonial or ritual uses of water (Glowacki & Malpass, 2003; Lumbreras, González, Lietaer, & Solís, 1976), although water, technology, and ritual do often go together in the Andes (Salomon, 1998; see also, de Avila, 1999 [1598?], p. 419, for an ethnohistoric example). Furthermore, given the geographical extent of the Andes, I focus mainly, though not exclusively, on water management infrastructure in the Central Andes, rather than that found beyond this area, such as the bordos – humped earth field boundaries that facilitated irrigated water conduit and retention – of the Catamarca region of Northwestern Argentina (Salminci, Tchilinguirian, & Lane, 2014) and complex causeway and canal network systems of the Amazon such as the Llanos de Moxos (Erickson, 1980, 2008). I should also mention that pre-Hispanic water...

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Irrigation Canal Irrigation Network Spanish Colonial Large Canal Bench Terrace 
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  1. 1.McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK