Life on the watershed Reconstructing subsistence in a steppe region using archaeological survey: a diachronic perspective on habitation in the Jordan Valley

• Autor principal: Kaptijn, Eva (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Leiden Sidestone Press 2009
• Assuntos: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; Near Eastern archaeology; Jordan; water management; agricultural practices
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the Near East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a region people should be able to structurally attain more water than rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area should not only identify when people inhabited s...