User talk:Indianasorell

Archaeological Myths & Realities (ANTH 212) - Thanks for signing in! If you have any questions about the assignment, please don't hesitate to let me know. Once you have decided on what article you will be editing or creating, please add a brief note (with hyperlink) after your name. Be sure to sign any comments in "Talk" sections with four tildes! Hoopes (talk) 19:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please please read WP:VERIFY and WP:RS for basic Wikipedia policy. For help on inline citations, which you need to use, see Help:Referencing for beginners. Don't forget you need page numbers for books! Hoopes (talk) 17:15, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Indianasorell/sandbox/Rand and Rose Flem-Ath

Hello, Indianasorell. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, User:Indianasorell/sandbox/Rand and Rose Flem-Ath.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:36, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, there were some issues with this work. When we have some time, I'll tell you the story... Hoopes (talk) 21:25, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Camellones article for ANTH 508

I think it's great that you've chosen waru waru for your article. Please note that this is the term used in the Andes and most closely associated with these features of Tiwanaku culture near and around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The general term is Raised field, but the Wikipedia article for this is extremely slim. The article on Chinampa, the variety of raised fields used in the Valley of Mexico, especially by the Toltecs and the Aztecs, is much more robust. Ideally, a revised Raised field article would have links to the articles on both chinampas and camellones as well as to the different sites where they have been documented. It's an excellent topic, especially because raised fields are also known from Belize at sites such as Pulltrouser Swamp (which also has an awesome name). The best research on chinampas has been done by Alan Kolata at the University of Chicago, who not only excavated ancient examples but also built experimental new ones in order to demonstrate how productive they can be. Hoopes (talk) 21:15, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

By they way, in 2015 ancient raised fields were documented in central Panama based on research that began by spotting these features in Google Earth! Some of the best known examples are in the Mompos Depression in northern Colombia. They definitely merit more research, especially as a highly productive method of sustainable agriculture! Hoopes (talk) 21:18, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you've done a great job with the waru waru article, with lots of good, relevant information and citations of valuable scholarly sources. I think you could have added some additional hyperlinks to terms, geographic locations, individuals, and institutions, so I have added some of those. I also went to the raised field article and added a brief paragraph with hyperlinks to the waru waru article and others on relevant topics. I think it's a little odd that the waru waru article contains more information than the raised field one does. That later merits much more attention and expansion so that it becomes a principal reference for raised-field agriculture over a broad area, including Mexico, Belize, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil. I suspect that surveys using satellite imagery and ground-truthing will reveal raised fields in other locations. I would not be surprised if they were used more extensively in the Amazon basin and parts of Central America, including Honduras and Costa Rica, but those have yet to be discovered. I would not be surprised to find them in parts of the southeastern U.S., such as the Mississippi Delta, but they have not yet been documented there, either. Raised field are clearly a highly productive strategy of sustainable agriculture, and that article also needs to be revised to include a section with hyperlinks back to the raised field and waru waru articles. This would bring this valuable technique--known more to archaeologists than to modern farmers--to the attention of a much wider audience. We know that these techniques worked. They sustained the Mayas, Aztecs, Tiwanaku, and others. They should be revived and utilized to bring wetlands into production. This will become essential in the face of global sea level rise and the inevitable creation and expansion of additional wetlands around the planet. Hoopes (talk) 00:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]