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Old World irrigation technology in a New World context: qanats in Spanish colonial western Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher S. Beekman ,
Phil C. Weigand  and
John J. Pint
Christopher S. Beekman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40292, USA, cbeekman@aol.com
Phil C. Weigand
Affiliation:
Antropología, Colegio de Michoacán A.C., Martínez de Navarrete #505, Esq. con Av. de Arbol, 59690 Zamora, Michoacán, México
John J. Pint
Affiliation:
Grupo Espeleológico Zótz, c/o Raymes, P.O. Box 1348, Jeddah 21431, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

Spanish colonists imported ancient Arabic irrigation methods into Mexico. Even though historians have made little of the qanat systems, archaeological research in Jalisco has revealed their significance in the colonial economy of Mexico.

Keywords

irrigationSpanish colonieseconomyqanat
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 280 , June 1999 , pp. 440 - 446
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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