One of the great strengths of the book is that Denevan draws on his extensive fieldwork experience in Amazonia and the Andes, and that this work of reference is supported by far greater personal involvement than is normally the case with works of synthesis on a continent-wide scale.

• PART I. FIELDS AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES ; 1. Introduction: research on indigenous cultivation in the Americas ; 2. Classification of field types ; 3. Crops, tools, and soft technology ; PART II. AMAZONIAN CULTIVATION ; 4. A diversity of Habitats and field systems ; 5. Fields of the Mojo, Campa, Bora, Shipibo, and Karinya ; 6. Pre-European riverine cultivation ; 7. Pre-European forest cultivation ; PART III. ANDEAN IRRIGATION AND TERRACING ; 8. Irrigated fields ; 9. Terraced fields ; 10. Terrace and irrigation origins and abandonment in the Colca valley ; PART IV. RAISED AND DRAINED FIELDS ; 11. Lost systems of cultivation ; 12. The Mojos raised fields ; 13. The Titicaca raised fields ; 14. Ditched fields, drainage canals, and river canalization ; PART V. CONCLUSIONS ; 15. Implications of indigenous agricultural technology ; APPENDICES ; 1A Cultivated plants of South America ; 1B Roster of cultivated plants by species name

One of the great strengths of the book is that Denevan draws on his extensive fieldwork experience in Amazonia and the Andes, and that this work of reference is supported by far greater personal involvement than is normally the case with works of synthesis on a continent-wide scale.

• PART I. FIELDS AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES ; 1. Introduction: research on indigenous cultivation in the Americas ; 2. Classification of field types ; 3. Crops, tools, and soft technology ; PART II. AMAZONIAN CULTIVATION ; 4. A diversity of Habitats and field systems ; 5. Fields of the Mojo, Campa, Bora, Shipibo, and Karinya ; 6. Pre-European riverine cultivation ; 7. Pre-European forest cultivation ; PART III. ANDEAN IRRIGATION AND TERRACING ; 8. Irrigated fields ; 9. Terraced fields ; 10. Terrace and irrigation origins and abandonment in the Colca valley ; PART IV. RAISED AND DRAINED FIELDS ; 11. Lost systems of cultivation ; 12. The Mojos raised fields ; 13. The Titicaca raised fields ; 14. Ditched fields, drainage canals, and river canalization ; PART V. CONCLUSIONS ; 15. Implications of indigenous agricultural technology ; APPENDICES ; 1A Cultivated plants of South America ; 1B Roster of cultivated plants by species name

One of the great strengths of the book is that Denevan draws on his extensive fieldwork experience in Amazonia and the Andes, and that this work of reference is supported by far greater personal involvement than is normally the case with works of synthesis on a continent-wide scale.

• PART I. FIELDS AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES ; 1. Introduction: research on indigenous cultivation in the Americas ; 2. Classification of field types ; 3. Crops, tools, and soft technology ; PART II. AMAZONIAN CULTIVATION ; 4. A diversity of Habitats and field systems ; 5. Fields of the Mojo, Campa, Bora, Shipibo, and Karinya ; 6. Pre-European riverine cultivation ; 7. Pre-European forest cultivation ; PART III. ANDEAN IRRIGATION AND TERRACING ; 8. Irrigated fields ; 9. Terraced fields ; 10. Terrace and irrigation origins and abandonment in the Colca valley ; PART IV. RAISED AND DRAINED FIELDS ; 11. Lost systems of cultivation ; 12. The Mojos raised fields ; 13. The Titicaca raised fields ; 14. Ditched fields, drainage canals, and river canalization ; PART V. CONCLUSIONS ; 15. Implications of indigenous agricultural technology ; APPENDICES ; 1A Cultivated plants of South America ; 1B Roster of cultivated plants by species name