Water, life and civilisation : climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley / / edited by Steven Mithen and Emily Black [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 551.48095694 |
Collana | International hydrology series |
Soggetto topico |
Hydrology - Jordan River Valley
Water-supply - Jordan River Valley - History Water and civilization Climate and civilization |
ISBN |
1-107-21799-7
1-139-06298-0 1-283-11224-8 9786613112248 1-139-07518-7 1-139-08200-0 1-139-07744-9 1-139-07973-5 0-511-97521-X 1-139-06941-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
; pt. I. Past, present and future climate. The present day climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Past climates of the Middle East / David Brayshaw [and others] -- Future climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Connecting climate and hydrological models for impact studies / Emily Black -- ; pt. II. The palaeoenvironmental record. Review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP : setting the environmental background for the evolution of human civilisation / Stuart Robinson [and others] -- Palaeoenvironments of the southern Levant from 5000 BP to present : linking the geological and archaeological records / Claire Rambeau and Stuart Black -- Using proxy data, historical climate data and climate models to investigate aridification during the Holocene / Emily Black [and others] -- Palaeoenvironmental and limnological reconstruction of Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea / Stuart Black [and others].
; pt. III. Hydrological studies of the Jordan Valley. Impacts of climate change on rainfall-runoff in the upper River Jordan : methodology and first projections / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Modelling Dead Sea levels and rainfall : past, present and future / Paul Whitehead [and others] -- Hydrology of the Wadi Faynan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Future projections of water availability in a semi-arid region of the eastern Mediterranean : a case study of Wadi Hasa, Jordan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- ; pt. IV. Human settlement, climate change, hydrology and water management. Archaeology of water management in the Jordan Valley from the Epipalaeolithic to the Nabataean, 21,000 BP (19,000 BC) to AD 106 / Bill Finlayson [and others] -- From global climate change to local impact in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan : ten millennia of human settlement in its hydrological context / Sam Smith -- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at Beidha, southern Jordan (c. 18,000-8,500 BP) : implications for human occupation during the Natufian and pre-pottery Neolithic / Claire Rambaeu -- Influence of water on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the southern Levant / Jaimie Lovell and Andrew Bradley -- Modelling water resources and climate change at the Bronze Age site of Jawa in northern Jordan : a new approach utilising stochastic simulation techniques / Paul Whitehead, Sam Smith and Andrew Wade -- Millennium of rainfall, settlement and water-management at Humayma, southern Jordan, c. 2,050-1,150 BP (100 BC-800 AD) / Rebecca Foote [and others]. ; pt. V. Palaeo-economies and developing archaeological methodologies. Reconstruction of diet and environment in ancient Jordan by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains / Michela Sandias -- Irrigation and phytolith formation : an experimental study / Emma Jenkins, Khalil Jamjoum and Sameeh Al Nuimat -- Investigation into the archaeological application of carbon stable isotope analysis used to establish crop water availability : solutions and ways forward / Helen Stokes, Gundula Müldner and Emma Jenkins -- Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures / Emma Jenkins, Ambroise Baker and Sarah Elliott -- ; pt. VI. Society, economy and water today. Current water demands and future strategies under changing climatic conditions / Stephen Nortcliff, Emily Black and Robert Potter -- Water reuse for irrigated agriculture in Jordan : soil sustainability, perceptions and management / Genma Carr -- Social equity issues and water supply under conditions of 'water stress' : a study of low- and high-income households in Greater Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- Role of water and land management policies in contemporary socio-economic development in Wadi Faynan / Khadija Darmame, Stephen Nortcliff and Robert Potter -- Political discourses and public narratives on water supply issues in Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- ; pt. VII. Conclusions. Overview and reflections : 20,000 years of water and human settlement in the southern Levant / Steven Mithen and Emily Black. |
Altri titoli varianti | Water, Life & Civilisation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459679403321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water, life and civilisation : climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley / / edited by Steven Mithen and Emily Black [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 551.48095694 |
Collana | International hydrology series |
Soggetto topico |
Hydrology - Jordan River Valley
Water-supply - Jordan River Valley - History Water and civilization Climate and civilization |
ISBN |
1-107-21799-7
1-139-06298-0 1-283-11224-8 9786613112248 1-139-07518-7 1-139-08200-0 1-139-07744-9 1-139-07973-5 0-511-97521-X 1-139-06941-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
; pt. I. Past, present and future climate. The present day climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Past climates of the Middle East / David Brayshaw [and others] -- Future climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Connecting climate and hydrological models for impact studies / Emily Black -- ; pt. II. The palaeoenvironmental record. Review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP : setting the environmental background for the evolution of human civilisation / Stuart Robinson [and others] -- Palaeoenvironments of the southern Levant from 5000 BP to present : linking the geological and archaeological records / Claire Rambeau and Stuart Black -- Using proxy data, historical climate data and climate models to investigate aridification during the Holocene / Emily Black [and others] -- Palaeoenvironmental and limnological reconstruction of Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea / Stuart Black [and others].
; pt. III. Hydrological studies of the Jordan Valley. Impacts of climate change on rainfall-runoff in the upper River Jordan : methodology and first projections / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Modelling Dead Sea levels and rainfall : past, present and future / Paul Whitehead [and others] -- Hydrology of the Wadi Faynan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Future projections of water availability in a semi-arid region of the eastern Mediterranean : a case study of Wadi Hasa, Jordan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- ; pt. IV. Human settlement, climate change, hydrology and water management. Archaeology of water management in the Jordan Valley from the Epipalaeolithic to the Nabataean, 21,000 BP (19,000 BC) to AD 106 / Bill Finlayson [and others] -- From global climate change to local impact in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan : ten millennia of human settlement in its hydrological context / Sam Smith -- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at Beidha, southern Jordan (c. 18,000-8,500 BP) : implications for human occupation during the Natufian and pre-pottery Neolithic / Claire Rambaeu -- Influence of water on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the southern Levant / Jaimie Lovell and Andrew Bradley -- Modelling water resources and climate change at the Bronze Age site of Jawa in northern Jordan : a new approach utilising stochastic simulation techniques / Paul Whitehead, Sam Smith and Andrew Wade -- Millennium of rainfall, settlement and water-management at Humayma, southern Jordan, c. 2,050-1,150 BP (100 BC-800 AD) / Rebecca Foote [and others]. ; pt. V. Palaeo-economies and developing archaeological methodologies. Reconstruction of diet and environment in ancient Jordan by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains / Michela Sandias -- Irrigation and phytolith formation : an experimental study / Emma Jenkins, Khalil Jamjoum and Sameeh Al Nuimat -- Investigation into the archaeological application of carbon stable isotope analysis used to establish crop water availability : solutions and ways forward / Helen Stokes, Gundula Müldner and Emma Jenkins -- Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures / Emma Jenkins, Ambroise Baker and Sarah Elliott -- ; pt. VI. Society, economy and water today. Current water demands and future strategies under changing climatic conditions / Stephen Nortcliff, Emily Black and Robert Potter -- Water reuse for irrigated agriculture in Jordan : soil sustainability, perceptions and management / Genma Carr -- Social equity issues and water supply under conditions of 'water stress' : a study of low- and high-income households in Greater Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- Role of water and land management policies in contemporary socio-economic development in Wadi Faynan / Khadija Darmame, Stephen Nortcliff and Robert Potter -- Political discourses and public narratives on water supply issues in Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- ; pt. VII. Conclusions. Overview and reflections : 20,000 years of water and human settlement in the southern Levant / Steven Mithen and Emily Black. |
Altri titoli varianti | Water, Life & Civilisation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790086603321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Water, life and civilisation : climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley / / edited by Steven Mithen and Emily Black [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 551.48095694 |
Collana | International hydrology series |
Soggetto topico |
Hydrology - Jordan River Valley
Water-supply - Jordan River Valley - History Water and civilization Climate and civilization |
ISBN |
1-107-21799-7
1-139-06298-0 1-283-11224-8 9786613112248 1-139-07518-7 1-139-08200-0 1-139-07744-9 1-139-07973-5 0-511-97521-X 1-139-06941-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
; pt. I. Past, present and future climate. The present day climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Past climates of the Middle East / David Brayshaw [and others] -- Future climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others] -- Connecting climate and hydrological models for impact studies / Emily Black -- ; pt. II. The palaeoenvironmental record. Review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP : setting the environmental background for the evolution of human civilisation / Stuart Robinson [and others] -- Palaeoenvironments of the southern Levant from 5000 BP to present : linking the geological and archaeological records / Claire Rambeau and Stuart Black -- Using proxy data, historical climate data and climate models to investigate aridification during the Holocene / Emily Black [and others] -- Palaeoenvironmental and limnological reconstruction of Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea / Stuart Black [and others].
; pt. III. Hydrological studies of the Jordan Valley. Impacts of climate change on rainfall-runoff in the upper River Jordan : methodology and first projections / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Modelling Dead Sea levels and rainfall : past, present and future / Paul Whitehead [and others] -- Hydrology of the Wadi Faynan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- Future projections of water availability in a semi-arid region of the eastern Mediterranean : a case study of Wadi Hasa, Jordan / Andrew Wade [and others] -- ; pt. IV. Human settlement, climate change, hydrology and water management. Archaeology of water management in the Jordan Valley from the Epipalaeolithic to the Nabataean, 21,000 BP (19,000 BC) to AD 106 / Bill Finlayson [and others] -- From global climate change to local impact in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan : ten millennia of human settlement in its hydrological context / Sam Smith -- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at Beidha, southern Jordan (c. 18,000-8,500 BP) : implications for human occupation during the Natufian and pre-pottery Neolithic / Claire Rambaeu -- Influence of water on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the southern Levant / Jaimie Lovell and Andrew Bradley -- Modelling water resources and climate change at the Bronze Age site of Jawa in northern Jordan : a new approach utilising stochastic simulation techniques / Paul Whitehead, Sam Smith and Andrew Wade -- Millennium of rainfall, settlement and water-management at Humayma, southern Jordan, c. 2,050-1,150 BP (100 BC-800 AD) / Rebecca Foote [and others]. ; pt. V. Palaeo-economies and developing archaeological methodologies. Reconstruction of diet and environment in ancient Jordan by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains / Michela Sandias -- Irrigation and phytolith formation : an experimental study / Emma Jenkins, Khalil Jamjoum and Sameeh Al Nuimat -- Investigation into the archaeological application of carbon stable isotope analysis used to establish crop water availability : solutions and ways forward / Helen Stokes, Gundula Müldner and Emma Jenkins -- Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures / Emma Jenkins, Ambroise Baker and Sarah Elliott -- ; pt. VI. Society, economy and water today. Current water demands and future strategies under changing climatic conditions / Stephen Nortcliff, Emily Black and Robert Potter -- Water reuse for irrigated agriculture in Jordan : soil sustainability, perceptions and management / Genma Carr -- Social equity issues and water supply under conditions of 'water stress' : a study of low- and high-income households in Greater Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- Role of water and land management policies in contemporary socio-economic development in Wadi Faynan / Khadija Darmame, Stephen Nortcliff and Robert Potter -- Political discourses and public narratives on water supply issues in Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter -- ; pt. VII. Conclusions. Overview and reflections : 20,000 years of water and human settlement in the southern Levant / Steven Mithen and Emily Black. |
Altri titoli varianti | Water, Life & Civilisation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819958803321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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