# Types of prehistoric Southwestern architecture Author: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Genre: Category: History - American Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69978 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Types+of+prehistoric+Southwestern+architecture+Fewkes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Among primitive peoples the calendar, sun worship and agriculture are closely connected. When man was just emerging from the hunting or fishing stages into early agricultural conditions it rarely happened that he replanted the same fields year after year, for it was early recognized that the land, however fertile, would not yield good crops in successive years but should lie fallow one or more years before replanting. The primitive agriculturist learned by experience that a change was necessary to insure good crops. To effect this change the agriculturist moved his habitation and planted on the sites where the soil was found to be fertile. There was thus a continual shifting of planting p... ## Chapters - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/types-of-prehistoric-southwestern-architecture-69978/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/types-of-prehistoric-southwestern-architecture-69978/chapters/2/index.md)