A Bayesian approach to dating agricultural terraces: a case from the Philippines

2009/09/01 by Stephen Acabado · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00099002

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Abstract

Field terraces are notoriously difficult to date – but historically of high significance. Here the author uses a Bayesian model applied to radiocarbon dates to date the tiered rice fields of the northern Philippines. They turn out to have been built in the sixteenth century probably by peoples retreating inland and upland from the Spanish.

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• Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago
• The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest
• Ifugao [wikipedia]