LEADER 04708oam 2200829I 450 001 9910777378603321 005 20230516193914.0 010 $a1-134-58264-1 010 $a1-134-58265-X 010 $a0-415-23001-2 010 $a1-280-02108-X 010 $a9786610021086 010 $a0-203-16573-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203165737 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000672 035 $a(EBL)180419 035 $a(OCoLC)54663528 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000276969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11225208 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226294 035 $a(PQKB)10346791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC180419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL180419 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2002548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL2108 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000672 100 $a20180331d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe archaeology of drylands $eliving at the margin /$feditors, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aOne world archaeology ;$v39 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-415-64284-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I INTRODUCTION; 1 Living at the margin: themes in the archaeology of drylands; 2 The dynamic climatology of drylands; Part II SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIA; 3 The decline of desert agriculture: a view from the classical period Negev; 4 Farmers, herders and miners in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: a 10,000-year landscape archaeology; 5 Differing strategies for water supply and farming in the Syrian Black Desert 327 $a6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from Turkmenistan; Part III SAHARA AND SAHEL; 7 Conquests and land degradation in the eastern Maghreb during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages; 8 Success, longevity and failure of arid-land agriculture: Romano-Libyan floodwater farming in the Tripolitanian pre-desert; 9 Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara); 10 Farming and famine: subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia; Part IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11 Engaruka: farming by irrigation in Maasailand c.AD 1400-1700 327 $a12 The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe; 13 Fifteenth-century agropastoral responses to a disequilibrial ecosystem in southeastern Botswana; 14 Islands of intensive agriculture in African drylands: towards an explanatory framework; Part V NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 15 Prehistoric agriculture and anthropogenic ecology of the North American Southwest; 16 The role of maguey in the Mesoamerican tierra fri?a: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland; 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rho?ne valley, France; Index 330 $aMany dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement. 410 0$aOne world archaeology ;$v39. 606 $aSocial archaeology 606 $aLandscape archaeology 606 $aHuman ecology 606 $aDeserts$xHistory 606 $aLand settlement$xHistory 606 $aLand settlement patterns, Prehistoric$xHistory 606 $aArid regions agriculture$xSocial aspects$xHistory 606 $aClimatic changes$xHistory 606 $aClimatic changes 615 0$aSocial archaeology. 615 0$aLandscape archaeology. 615 0$aHuman ecology. 615 0$aDeserts$xHistory. 615 0$aLand settlement$xHistory. 615 0$aLand settlement patterns, Prehistoric$xHistory. 615 0$aArid regions agriculture$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aClimatic changes$xHistory. 615 0$aClimatic changes. 676 $a930.1 701 $aBarker$b Graeme$0153265 701 $aGilbertson$b D. D$01554211 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777378603321 996 $aThe archaeology of drylands$93815314 997 $aUNINA