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This is an exciting time for agave research, involving researchers from all disciplines and interests, including archaeologists, botanists, Native Peoples, and others. This book, with its many fine photographs, helps make the science of this fascinating but complex group more accessible to the public, who can better appreciate and care about these wild and domesticated, unique Arizona gems. --Wendy C. Hodgson, Curator of the Herbarium and Senior Research Botanist, Desert Botanical Garden, and author/illustrator of Food Plants of the Sonoran DesertFascinating, educational, and a great read! Chasing Centuries fills a large void in our understanding of how humans and agaves have co-evolved…well done! --Tony Avent, Owner of Plant Delights Nursery, and founder of Juniper Level Botanic Garden in Raleigh, North CarolinaThis lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched work takes the reader on a fascinating adventure through thousands of years of history of human-agave coevolution in the rugged landscapes of Arizona. Chasing Centuries is a book to be savored, carried into the field, kept as a reference and gifted to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how Arizona s ancient peoples played an enduring role in shaping the natural habitats of the region. --Michael Wilken-Robertson, anthropologist and author of Kumeyaay Ethnobotany
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About the Author
Ron Parker is an outdoorsman, xeric plant enthusiast, and amateur botanist who spends half his time gardening and the other half exploring natural habitat across Arizona and neighboring states, primarily chasing agaves and archaeological sites. He has been studying agave populations in Arizona for many years, and has been out in the field with renowned botanists and regional archaeologists. When not under the open sky, Ron maintains the well-known xeric plant discussion forum, Agaveville.org, an impressive online repository for information on agaves and other succulent plants.
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Product details
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications (February 2, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 194138448X
ISBN-13: 978-1941384480
Product Dimensions:
7 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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merAgaves are nothing short of a conundrum. Native to North America, this huge genus of the Lily family has vexed botanists for a long time. The native species are so highly variable that they are difficult to identify. Why such an ID challenge? Because we group plants by their flower or reproductive structures. A plant that blooms just once in it's lifetime which can span many decades, then dies, gives us little to differentiate them. Fortunately DNA is changing all that. It's allowing us to study Arizona agave species over millennia via human habitation sites to determine their true origins.That was the goal of author Ron Parker, was to study agave populations in the field along with archaeologists and botanists to create a truly human picture of these plants. Their focus is on cliff dweller sites and the Native American use and transport of naturally occurring agave throughout the desert Southwest.Ron's great efforts paid off in the highly illustrated book, Chasing Centuries: The Search for Ancient Agave Cultivars Across the Desert Southwest. (Sunbelt 2019, $26.95) This is a remarkable ethnobotany study that is understandable to both experts like me and the average person so everyone can understand the content. It's in three parts:Part I The Historical Perspective: This introduces the regional pre-Columbian cultures, how and why they farmed their agaves, and all the benefits derived from the plant.Part II Agaves of the Region: This part details ways agaves differ, profiles all the naturally occurring agaves, then goes deep for the cultigens (variations) of pre-Columbian agave species.Part III Notes from the Field: Here the author looks at contemporary details that focus on preventing climate change extinction of the most ancient species and how to grow them to maintain populations.Do not consider this book similar to the other two excellent botany books on agaves from a purely scientific angle such as Agaves by Greg Starr and Agaves, Yuccas and Related Plants by Mary and Gary Irish. While these are basically the compendiums of agaves in cultivation, they are not that regionally specific. They also lack the historic data that may show some "native" species that may have been carried from elsewhere into these sites millennia ago.The photography in this book with its stunning views of agaves growing at ancient ruins and cliff dwellings are inspiring. The red rocks of Arizona give this book a reality feel that brings us back to ancient times and a subsistence plant that offered thread, fiber, needles, and food. Seeing the agaves always in habitat rather than greenhouses and gardens gives us desert folks a strong feel for how to use them.Due to the rocky nature of these desert agave photographs, we learn a lot about their preferences for well-drained high places with great drainage and less than fertile soils. There are also examples of ways Native Americans of that area planted and tended their agave patches to ensure plenty of raw materials always available nearby.However, it's noted by Parker that these tribes didn't plant them close to their camps or cliff dwellings as the rising bloom stalks made them highly visible from a long distance. This could help enemies who drove them into the cliff pueblos for protection, find their secluded dwellings to attack. Thus when visiting these ruins, see if you can find nearby agave patches or the remnants of them shown by rocky ground patterns in the photos.Rarely does such a beautiful, informative and thoughtful book enter the desert plant world. What it shows us about climate change in this region demonstrates how native people adopted to this very ancient and cyclical problem. Did cultivation of agaves begin as a solution to natural desertification by the Anasazi, their enemies and descendants? Find out by adding this beautiful must-read book to your desert library.
In writing "Chasing Centuries", author Ron Parker has contributed significantly to a more complete understanding of the various Agave species found within Arizona, which has the most diversity of this beautiful and valuable genus outside of Mexico. In addition to covering all of the native species found within the state, Parker also covers naturally occurring hybrids and populations of horticultural variants that have remained naturalized in the wild at and near ancient archaeological sites for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years, despite the cultures that once grew them having been long extinguished or migrated elsewhere. Beautifully illustrated with numerous photos, the book has both artistic merit as well as scientific and cultural value. Hitting that particular trifecta of useful categories is not the easiest feat for an author to achieve, but Parker has done so. This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of desert enthusiasts and succulent collectors everywhere.
I never stop being amazed that some agaves are direct genetic clones of plants originally developed and cultivated by precolombian native people here in the desert southwest. I've been waiting for this book because although this information is already out there if you dig, it was begging to be pulled together with photos and maps. This is an essential read for any xeric plant lover.
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