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Reply to Doolittle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David A. Peterson,
Marcus C. Winter and
William P. Hewitt
David A. Peterson
Affiliation:
Instituto de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Universidad de las Américas, A.C., Sabinos 400-A #6, Colonia Reforma, 68050 Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Marcus C. Winter
Affiliation:
Centro Regional de Oaxaca, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Pino Suárez 715, 68000 Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
William P. Hewitt
Affiliation:
Apartado Postal 552, 68000 Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Abstract

Doolittle (1989) provides interesting information on pocitos and registros but does not show that they are associated with irrigation agriculture exclusively, nor does he address the main point of our paper — that Hierve el Agua was a salt-producing site. We suggest several criteria for distinguishing salt-production sites from agricultural sites and present some additional observations in support of our interpretation of Hierve el Agua's function.

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Résumé

Doolittle (1989) provee información interesante sobre pocitos y registros, pero no demuestra que se asocian exclusivamente con la agricultura de irrigación, y tampoco trata de nuestro propósito que se producía sal en el sitio de Hierve el Agua. Sugerimos algunos criterios para distinguir entre los sitios en donde se producian la sal y los sitios en donde se practicaba la agricultura, y presentamos observaciónes adicionales en favor de nuestra interpretación.

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American Antiquity , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , October 1989, pp. 847 - 850
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1989

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