Water for Assyria /

Lying within the range of 600 to 200 mm annual precipitation, the core region of Assyria (the ?heartland?) extends from the piedmont zone of the Zagros to the capital of Ashur. Scholars have maintained over decennia that water has never been of great economic significance for Assyria and that the As...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kühne, Hartmut, 1943- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Studia Chaburensia.
Temas:
Water-power > Technological innovations > Assyria > History > Congresses.
Water > Distribution > Management > History > Sources.
Water and civilization > History > Sources.
Eau > Distribution > Gestion > Histoire > Sources.
Eau et civilisation > Histoire > Sources.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Civilization
Water and civilization
Water > Distribution > Management
Assyria > Civilization > History > Sources.
Middle East > Assyria
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Pages; Contents; Preface; Hartmut Kühne: Water for Assyria
  • Introduction; Marco Iamoni: A vital resource in prehistory: Water and settlementduring the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods; Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault: The King and the Canal; John MacGinnis: Construction and operation of canals in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian sources; Jason Ur: Water for Arbail and Nimrud; Daniele Morandi Bonacossi: Water for Nineveh. The Nineveh Irrigation System in the regional context of the 'Assyrian Triangle': A first Geoarchaeological Assessment.
  • Simone Mühl et al.: Irrigation in the Shahrizor Plain. The potential of archaeological and geoarchaeological archives to reconstruct ancient water managementHartmut Kühne: Politics and Water Management at the Lower Ḫābūr (Syria) in the Middle Assyrian Period and beyond
  • a New Appraisal

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