The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / edited by Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson.

The archaeology of drylands :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780203165737 (e-book : PDF)
9781134582600 (e-book: Mobi)
9781134582648 (e-book: ePub)
9781134582655 (e-book: PDF)
9780415230018 (hardback)
9780415642842 (paperback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages)
Dizi
One world archaeology ; 39
İçindekiler Notu
part Part I INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 Living at the margin: themes in the archaeology of drylands / Graeme Barker -- chapter 2 The dynamic climatology of drylands / Greg Spellman -- part Part II SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIA -- chapter 3 The decline of desert agriculture: a view from the classical period Negev -- chapter 4 Farmers, herders and miners in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: a 10,000-year landscape archaeology -- chapter 5 Differing strategies for water supply and farming in the Syrian Black Desert -- chapter 6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from Turkmenistan -- part Part III SAHARA AND SAHEL -- chapter 7 Conquests and land degradation in the eastern Maghreb during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages -- chapter 8 Success, longevity and failure of arid-land agriculture: Romano-Libyan floodwater farming in the Tripolitanian pre-desert -- chapter 9 Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara) / David Mattingly -- chapter 10 10Farming and famine: subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia / Ann Butler and A.Catherine D’Andrea -- part Part IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA -- chapter 11 Part IV 11Engaruka: farming by irrigation in Maasailand, c.AD 1400-1700 / John E. G. Sutton -- chapter 12 12The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe / Robert Soper -- chapter 13 Fifteenth-century agropastoral responses to a disequilibrial ecosystem in southeastern Botswana -- chapter 14 Islands of intensive agriculture in African drylands: towards an explanatory framework -- part Part V NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA -- chapter 15 Prehistoric agriculture and anthropogenic ecology of the North American Southwest -- chapter 16 The role of maguey in the Mesoamerican tierra fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives -- part Part VI EUROPE -- chapter 17 Part VI 17Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland / Anne Jones -- chapter 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rh�ne valley, France.
Konu
Social archaeology.
Landscape archaeology.
Human ecology.
Deserts __ History.
Land settlement __ History.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric __ History.
Arid regions agriculture __ Social aspects __ History.
Climatic changes __ History.
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