The question of prehistoric agriculture among the western Yumans

• Laylander, Don ^[1]
  1. [1] Department of Transportation of the State of California
• Localización: Estudios Fronterizos, ISSN-e 2395-9134, ISSN 0187-6961, Nº. 35-36, 1995, págs. 187-203
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.21670/ref.1995.35-36.a09
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  • español

    La agricultura formaba parte importante del sistema de subsistencia de los pueblos de habla Yumana que vivían a lo largo o cerca de la parte baja del rio Colorado. Algunos especialistas argumentas que los Yumanos de la parte noroeste de Baja California y la parte sudoeste de California también practicaban la agricultura. Sin embargo, al realizar en este artículo una cuidadosa revisión de las evidencias no se encuentra un sustento sólido para la afirmación.

  • English

    Agriculture fanned an important part of the subsistence system of the prehistoric: Yuman-speaking peoples who lived along or near the lower Colorado River.  Some recent scholars have argued that the Yumans of nnorthwestern Baja California and southwestern California also practiced agriculture prehistorically. A critical review of the evidence fills to fails any substantial support for that conclusion.

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