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Engineering Resilience to Water Stress in the Late Prehispanic North-Central Andean Highlands (~600–1200 BP)

dc.creatorLane, Kevin John
dc.date2021-12
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-02T01:21:40Z
dc.date.available2024-08-02T01:21:40Z
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/159228
dc.identifierLane, Kevin John; Engineering Resilience to Water Stress in the Late Prehispanic North-Central Andean Highlands (~600–1200 BP); MDPI AG; Water; 13; 24; 12-2021; 1-29
dc.identifier2073-4441
dc.identifierCONICET Digital
dc.identifierCONICET
dc.identifier.urihttps://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/174960
dc.descriptionThe Andes are defined by human struggles to provide for, and control, water. Nowhere is this challenge more apparent than in the unglaciated western mountain range Cordillera Negra of the Andes where rain runoff provides the only natural source of water for herding and farming economies. Based on over 20 years of systematic field surveys and taking a political ecology and resilience theory focus, this article evaluates how the Prehispanic North-Central highlands Huaylas ethnic group transformed the landscape of the Andes through the largescale construction of complex hydraulic engineering works in the Cordillera Negra of the Ancash Province, North-Central Peru. It is likely that construction of these engineered landscapes commenced during the Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000), reaching their apogee under the Late Intermediate Period (Huaylas group, AD 1000–1450) and Inca (AD 1450–1532) period, before falling into disuse during the early Spanish colony (AD 1532–1615) through a combination of disease, depopulation, and disruption. Persistent water stress in the western Pacific-facing Andean cordillera was ameliorated through the construction of interlinked dams and reservoirs controlling the water, soil, and wetlands. The modern study of these systems provides useful case-studies for infrastructure rehabilitation potentially providing low-cost, though technologically complex, solutions to modern water security.
dc.descriptionFil: Lane, Kevin John. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/24/3544
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/w13243544
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/
dc.subjectCentral-Andes
dc.subjectengineered landscapes
dc.subjectpolitical ecology
dc.subjectPrehispanic
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectwater security
dc.subjectwetland management
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.titleEngineering Resilience to Water Stress in the Late Prehispanic North-Central Andean Highlands (~600–1200 BP)
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