Islands In The Lake Environment And Ethnohistory In Xochimilco New Spain Richard M Conway by Richard M. Conway 9781316518892, 9781009008563, 9781009003957, 9781009007795, 1316518892, 1009008560, 100900395X, 1009007793 instant download after payment.

"Over the course of several millennia, the mutual influences between Native societies and their natural surroundings profoundly affected the history of communities in and around Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco. Early agricultural societies intervened in the lacustrine environment through irrigation projects which in turn encouraged population growth and enabled the rise of complex societies. During these changing, interconnected ecological and sociopolitical processes, the Xochimilca, Cuitlahuaca, and Mixquica and other ethnic groups settled in the southern lake areas. There they adopted chinampa cultivation and contributed to dramatic demographic growth and urbanization in the late Postclassic period (ca. 1350-1521 C.E.), which culminated in the rise of Tenochtitlan and, with it, the Aztec Triple Alliance"--