El Niño resilience farming on the north coast of Peru

Caramanica, A.; Huckleberry, G.; Mesia, L.H.; Morales, C.R.; Luis Jaime Castillo, B.; Quilter, J.

dc.contributor.author	Caramanica, A.
dc.contributor.author	Mesia, L.H.
dc.contributor.author	Morales, C.R.
dc.contributor.author	Huckleberry, G.
dc.contributor.author	Luis Jaime Castillo, B.
dc.contributor.author	Quilter, J.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-14T16:06:12Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-14T16:06:12Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8675
dc.description.abstract	El Niño-Southern Oscillation has been treated as a disruptor of environmental and socioeconomic equilibrium both in ancient times and in modern-day Peru. Recent work in the coastal desert plain, known as the Pampa de Mocan, challenges this view by demonstrating that prehispanic irrigation systems were designed to incorporate floods and convert them into productive waters. Archaeological investigations in this landscape reveal a 2,000-y history of floodwater farming embedded in conventional canal systems. Together with a pollen record recovered from a prehispanic well, these data suggest that the Pampa de Mocan was a flexible landscape, capable of taking advantage of El Niño floodwaters as well as river water. In sharp contrast to modern-day flood mitigation efforts, ancient farmers used floodwaters to develop otherwise marginal landscapes, such as the Pampa de Mocan, which in turn mitigated risk during El Niño years. These archaeological data speak to contemporary policy debates in the face of increasingly intense and frequent natural disasters and question whether El Niño Southern Oscillation events should be approached as a form of temporary disorder or as a form of periodic abundance.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	National Academy of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	archaeology	en_US
dc.subject	irrigation agriculture	en_US
dc.subject	ENSO	en_US
dc.subject	pollen	en_US
dc.subject	floodwater farming	en_US
dc.title	El Niño resilience farming on the north coast of Peru	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006519117
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.00
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02
dc.relation.issn	1091-6490