Examining the relationship between sustainability and farmland management in diffeing tempoarla spatial and production contexts, this book considers farmland multifuctionality, systems and sytemic thinking, the debates over information, knowledge and ethical aspects.

This volume introduces the research design for archaeological and related investigations at the Marana Mound site, a set of related Hohokam compounds in southern Arizona, and summaries of major findings at this Early Classic Periods center. The studies presented originated from student papers, theses, and dissertations as well as specialist studies resulting from archaeological field classes and field schools at the Marana site between 1990 and 2003. The studies offer valuable insights into the organization of Hohokam society as seen at this time period and in this particular locale.

This account of Classic Period settlement in the Tucson Basin between A.D. 1100 and 1300 is the first comprehensive description of the organization of territory, subsistence, and society in a Hohokam community of an outlying region. Broad recovery of settlement patterns reveals in unique detail the developmental history of the Marana Community and its hierarchical structure about a central site with a platform mound. Remains of diverse agricultural technologies demonstrate the means for supporting populations of previously unrecognized size.