El Niño resilience farming on the north coast of Peru
| Autor: | Ari Caramanica, Luis Huamán Mesía, Jeffrey Quilter, Claudia R. Morales, Gary Huckleberry, B Luis Jaime Castillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Irrigation
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject 01 natural sciences River water floodwater farming Flood mitigation 0601 history and archaeology irrigation agriculture Natural disaster purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02 [https] 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Multidisciplinary purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.00 [https] 060102 archaeology business.industry archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 15. Life on land Geography El Niño Southern Oscillation El Niño 13. Climate action Agriculture pollen Psychological resilience ENSO Water resource management business |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117:24127-24137 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.2006519117 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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