Flood-retreat farming
 

Graeber / Wengrow discuss "flood-retreat farming" on 235
 
"In terms of labor, flood-retreat farming is not only pretty light, it also requires little central management. Critically, such systems have a kind of inbuilt resistance to the enclosure and measurement of land [...] there is little incentive for long-term ownership or enclosure of fixed plots"
 
"If anything, flood-retreat farming was practically oriented toward the collective holding of land, or at least flexible systems of field reallocation"
 
[Çatalhöyük, also Pueblo Indians in modern times, per endnote]

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

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