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Water and power in past societies /
Water, an essential resource in all cultures, is at the heart of human power structures. Utilizing a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, the contributors to Water and Power in Past Societies provide a broad introduction to the archaeology of water-related power structures. The studies herein...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The political ecology of Chinampa landscapes in the basin of Mexico / Christopher T. Morehart
- Irrigation and social organization: a Longue Durée perspective from the Jordan Valley / Eva Kaptijn
- Water management by mobile pastoralists in the Middle East / Emily Hammer
- Water and workshops: inequality among mining sites in ancient Laurion (Greece) / Kim Van Liefferinge
- From elite villas to public spaces: the first decorative fountains in Ancient Rome / Brenda Longfellow
- From urban oasis to desert hinterland: the decline of Petra's water system: the case of the Petra garden and pool complex / Leigh-Ann Bedal
- Spatial archaeology, hydrology and the historical dynamics of water in ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman) / Michael Harrower
- The sea and Bronze Age transformations / Christopher Prescott, Anette Sand-Eriksen and Knut Ivar Austvoll
- Southeast Asian maritime power, 17th century spice wars, and Tiworo's neglected fortifications / Jennifer L. Gaynor
- The power of coastal resources: assessing maritime economic opportunity in the Roman Mediterranean / Justin Leidwanger
- Rivers as material infrastructure: a legacy from the past to the future / Matt Edgeworth
- Geologies of belonging: the political ecology of water in Central Anatolia / Ö̈mür Harmansah
- Some perspectives on the frequency of significant, historically forcing, drought and subsistence crises in Anatolia and region / Sturt W. Manning
- A framework for facing the past / Vernon L Scarborough.