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DOI	10.1080/15564894.2021.1924898
	Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
	Stevenson, C. M.; Naranjo-Cigala, A.; Ladefoged, T. N.; Diaz, F. J.
通讯作者	Stevenson, CM (corresponding author), Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Sch World Studies, Richmond, VA 23284 USA.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	1556-4894
EISSN	1556-1828
出版年	2021-05
英文摘要	The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands was first settled by people from northern Africa in the first millennium BC and then colonized by Spain in the late fifteenth century. This colonial legacy reflects an intensive land use driven by a European commodities market that experienced a series of boom-and-bust cycles. Although arid and seemingly resource limited, colonial farmers in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries copied water capture techniques from the Indigenous population, were strategic in terms of field placement, and engaged in a range of niche construction techniques. An analysis of 420 soil samples for their chemical properties (e.g., pH, electrical conductivity, nutrients) has revealed that sixteenth to nineteenth agricultural infrastructure in the form of open fields, terraces, water capture basins, and mulched fields was constructed on the landscape avoiding areas of high soil salinity and placement was tailored to variations in terrain slope, elevation, and rainfall. These improvements fundamentally changed ecosystem relations resulting in increased agricultural productivity. A series of eolian and volcanic events in the eighteenth century resulted in environmental changes requiring counteractive responses and new processes of niche reconfiguration. Large tracts of land were initially removed from production, but processes of niche construction created new opportunities. These included constructing mulched pits for cultivating sweet potato and tephra mulching for enhanced moisture conservation and accelerated growth of cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus) production on cactus host plants. Cochineal production lasted for a period of sixty years (ca. AD 1825-1885) before a collapse of the market caused by the invention of chemical substitutes.
英文关键词	Agriculture cochineal ecodynamics soil nutrients water capture
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000669733100001
WOS关键词	VOLCANIC MATERIALS ; DUST DEPOSITS ; RAPA NUI ; SOIL ; AGRICULTURE ; MULCH ; ARCHAEOLOGY ; IRRIGATION ; EVOLUTION ; CLIMATE
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/367524
作者单位	[Stevenson, C. M.] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Sch World Studies, Richmond, VA 23284 USA; [Naranjo-Cigala, A.] Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Geog, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; [Ladefoged, T. N.] Univ Auckland, Sch Social Sci, Anthropol, Auckland, New Zealand; [Ladefoged, T. N.] Te Punaha Matatini, Auckland, New Zealand; [Diaz, F. J.] Univ La Laguna, Dept Anim Biol Soil Sci & Geol, San Cristobal la Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stevenson, C. M.,Naranjo-Cigala, A.,Ladefoged, T. N.,et al. Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain[J],2021.
APA	Stevenson, C. M.,Naranjo-Cigala, A.,Ladefoged, T. N.,&Diaz, F. J..(2021).Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
MLA	Stevenson, C. M.,et al."Colonial rainfed farming strategies in an extremely arid insular environment: Niche construction on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain".JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY (2021).