The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / edited by Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
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 Climatic changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-58265-X
0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book 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
6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from TurkmenistanPart 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 12 The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe13 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 fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, FranceIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163948603321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / editors, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
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 Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-134-58264-1
1-134-58265-X 0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book 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
6 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 12 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 fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland; 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, France; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777378603321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / edited by Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
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 Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-134-58264-1
1-134-58265-X 0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book 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
6 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 12 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 fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland; 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, France; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829169903321 |
London, : Routledge, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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