The Wet and the Dry: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia

by Patrick Vinton Kirch

Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures.

Examining research on cultural adaptation and ecology in Western Polynesia and utilizing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226437493
• ISBN13: 9780226437491
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"