TY  - SER
AU  - Beekman,Christopher S.
TI  - Old World irrigation technology in a New World context: qanats in Spanish colonial western Mexico 
KW  - ANTROPOLOGIA
N1  - Antiquity 73 (1999): 440Ð446
N2  - Spanish colonists imported ancient Arabic irrigation methods into Mexico. Even though historians have made little of the qanat systems, archaeological research in Jalisco has revealed their significance in the colonial economy of Mexico
ER  -