Agricultural crisis in the ancient southern andes: trajectories and evidence for its archaeological study

Abstract

When common discussing and critical economic have crises involved in the shortages ancientin past, staple those foods most or breakdowns in systems for their production, storage or preservation. Because of this, the international historical literature frequently contains references to agricultural crises and their serious consequences for past populations. Although this subject has recently gained renewed interest in socio-economic research regarding famines in general, access to food, consequences of the ‘Green Revolution’, and issues of ‘Alimentary Sovereignty’, it has also been explored in archaeology from another perspective, where crisis is seen as a driving force behind political and social changes in the past.