Abstract
In most of the numerous wetlands scattered over the lowlands of Central Veracruz, Mexico, one can trace the remains of canals and planting platforms, which are commonly called drained or raised fields (Siemens, 1980). A total of some 2,000 hectares of such patterned wetland has been located in a discontinuous band that stretches some 75 km from the hill land southeast of Laguna Mandinga, northwestward, just behind the port of Veracruz and up to the Rio Actopan. These features cannot be attributed to recent or historic land use; they must pertain to precontact epochs of agricultural intensification.
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Siemens, A.H. (1990). Reducing the Risk: Some Indications Regarding Pre-Hispanic Wetland Agricultural Intensification from Contemporary Use of a Wetland/Terra Firma Boundary Zone in Central Veracruz. In: Gliessman, S.R. (eds) Agroecology. Ecological Studies, vol 78. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3252-0_15
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