Ecological effects of irrigation in ancient Mesopotamia
Author | : Hans Helbaek |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Hans Helbaek |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Theodore E. Downing |
Publisher | : Anthropological Papers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Papers from a symposium presented at the 1972 meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Long Beach, Calif.
Author | : J. Rzóska |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400991711 |
Scope and limitations of this book I am trying here to present the natural history of a land largely created and dominated by two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris. All rivers have two main functions, quite different from lakes; they transport water and eroded material sometimes over large distances. The astute Greeks, who penetrated here in the 4th century B.C., called the land Mesopotamia, an apt name; it is the only region in the Near East, except Egypt, having the benefit of large rivers. Another name coined in antiquity was 'Fertile Crescent', stretching from Egypt to present day Iraq; Herodotus marvelled at the fertility of the soils, the abundance of water and the magnificent cities of Mesopotamia. Thus a further role of some great rivers is recognized as foci of human development. The desire to collate this book arose from a similar motif as in the Nile book (1976), the intricate connection between man and rivers.
Author | : Arne Wossink |
Publisher | : Sidestone Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9088900310 |
Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature. It is argued that developments in these relations will fall within a continuum between competition on one end and cooperation on the other. The adoption of a particular strategy depends on whether that strategy is advantageous to a community in terms of the maintenance of its well-being when faced with adverse climate change. This model will be applied to northern Mesopotamia between 3000 and 1600 BC. Local palaeoclimate proxy records demonstrate that aridity increased significantly during this period. Within this geographical, chronological, and climatic framework, this study looks at changes in settlement patterns as an indication of competition among sedentary agriculturalist communities, and the development of the Amorite ethnic identity as reflecting cooperation among sedentary and more mobile pastoralist communities.
Author | : Robert Sallares |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801426155 |
A pioneering study in historical population biology, this book offers the first comprehensive ecological history of the ancient Greek world. It proposes a new model for treating the relationship between the population and the land, centering on the distribution and abundance of living organisms.
Author | : Charles L. Redman |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816519620 |
Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed long-term sustainable relationships with their environments—and thousands in which the relationships were destructive. Charles Redman demonstrates that much can be learned from an improved understanding of peoples who, through seemingly rational decisions, degraded their environments and threatened their own survival. By discussing archaeological case studies from around the world—from the deforestation of the Mayan lowlands to soil erosion in ancient Greece to the almost total depletion of resources on Easter Island—Redman reveals the long-range coevolution of culture and environment and clearly shows the impact that ancient peoples had on their world. These case studies focus on four themes: habitat transformation and animal extinctions, agricultural practices, urban growth, and the forces that accompany complex society. They show that humankind's commitment to agriculture has had cultural consequences that have conditioned our perception of the environment and reveal that societies before European contact did not necessarily live the utopian existences that have been popularly supposed. Whereas most books on this topic tend to treat human societies as mere reactors to environmental stimuli, Redman's volume shows them to be active participants in complex and evolving ecological relationships. Human Impact on Ancient Environments demonstrates how archaeological research can provide unique insights into the nature of human stewardship of the Earth and can permanently alter the way we think about humans and the environment.
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1974-02 |
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Author | : R. S. DeSanto |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461394325 |
This book represents the interests and attitudes, the information, and the philosophy that define my work and career as it has evolved over the years. Not written as a substitute for any of the many textbooks on ecology, it is meant to present the simplest and most direct approach to a complex field as distilled out of my work as an applied ecologist, who deals with concrete daily problems in the real-world context of economics, politics, and logis tics. I hope that it is useful to the reader who seeks an overview of applied ecology, including sufficient specific detail to make that reader more com fortable with the field and more conversant with the capabilities and limits of ecologists and their tools. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography which has two functions. The first is to represent the main sources or reviews of information upon which the associated chapter is partly based. The second is to give sources for some of the examples utilized in the chapter and some of the illustrations summarizing and clarifying the text, which have been adapted, cited, or derived, from those references. In that sense, I must most sincerely thank all those fellow ecologists who have preceeded me and who have made my work far more diverse and interesting to me than might otherwise have been the case.
Author | : Frank Hole |
Publisher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Khuzistan |
ISBN | : 1949098478 |
Author | : Petr Charvát |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134530773 |
Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to the time of the early states, c. 100,000 BC to 2334 BC. The narrative is supplemented by numerous descriptions of the principal archaeological sites for each phase, and by conclusions outlining the most important developments and changes.