Author(s): Graeme Barker; David Gilbertson (eds)
Series: One World Archaelogy 39
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
City: London-New York
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 fram4gsìb
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
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