Results of a 92 square kilometer survey in Cota and Suba in the Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia, as part of an ongoing archaeological regional settlement study. The author documents the settlement pattern of the survey zone together with more than 15,000 ha of raised fields. Pollen analysis from excavations provided evidence of maize and beans dated to the 1100 BC. The research focused on the relationship between the development of intensive agriculture and the emergence of complex societies. Early use of intensive agriculture in raised fields preceded the emergence of political centralization by at least 1500 years. The possibility that later in the cultural sequence the existing highly productive intensive agricultural techniques may have been subjected to control by emergent elites is considered. In Spanish.

Published by Banco de la República de Colombia, 2006. 181 pp. ISBN: 958-95153-8-x.

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