The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
Tony J. Wilkinson irrigation. They include floodbasins where water tables are higher and salinisation can be a chronic problem. ...
Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems Some distance from the levees occur flood basins o f clay-rich and usually saline so ...
process has not escaped the attention of cuneiform scholars and Edzard, drawing on historical records that described a catastrop ...
Tigris and the Euphrates peaks in April and May as a result of winter rainfall and spring snowmelt on the mountains of Anatolia, ...
Salinity Soil mapping in advance of major irrigation projects has demonstrated that water- logged so-called hydromorphic soils a ...
Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems ancient Uruk (Figure 2.3). In other words, not only did processes such as avulsion c ...
Overall, the natural hydraulic landscape of anastomosing rivers and marshes was taken advantage by early communities who probabl ...
The communities of Sumer therefore had the choice of digging either long canals up to 40 km (Hunt 1988 : 194 ) with extremely ge ...
Tony ]. Wilkinson Figure 2.4a Layout of an ancient canal system that distributed water from a levee crest channel in the norther ...
Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems Figure 2.5 Ottoman irrigation system around Qal’a Sussa on the Shatt al Kar showing ...
later. Instead there was a patchwork of urban-centred zones of varying size along connective but often narrow canal or river-bra ...
Despite the need to rid the land of water, which was arguably as important as bringing water to it, especially to safeguard agai ...
with the famous irrigation systems of southern Arabia, but also the fields must gradually have been raised by siltation relative ...
canals must have served multiple functions so that when, for example, dams were inserted to guide water into canals they must ha ...
large areas of land, albeit at a relatively low yield and return, which necessarily resulted in the deployment of large areas of ...
local kin-based or tribal communities could have organised much of the remainder. Because cuneiform tablets only provide a recor ...
Ertsen, M.W. 2010. Structuring properties of irrigation systems: understanding relations between humans and hydraulics through m ...
Pemberton, W., J.N. Postgate and R.F. Smyth. 1988. Canals and bunds, ancient and modern. Bulletin on Sumerian AgricultureIV: 207 ...
Wittfogel, K. 1957. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Haven: Yale University Press. Wood, C. 2005. On ...
CHAPTER THREE SUMERIAN AGRICULTURE AND LAND MANAGEMENT Magnus Widell T his chapter focuses on the agricultural landscape and ...
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