%0 Journal Article
%T Irrigation technology, society and environment in the Roman Near East
%A Kamash, Z.
%J Journal of Arid Environments
%D 2012
%V 86
%@ 0140-1963
%F Kamash2012
%O Ancient Agriculture in the Middle East
%O exported from refbase (http://www.uhydro.de/base/show.php?record=259), last updated on Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:06:37 +0100
%X This paper uses a multi-faceted approach to understand the use and distribution of different irrigation technologies in the Roman Near East (63 BC - AD 636), looking at the ways in which social and environmental factors affected the implementation of those irrigation technologies. It is argued that no single factor can fully explain how irrigation technologies were used across time and space in this region. Instead, choices in irrigation technology seem to have been governed by a complex nexus of both social and environmental factors.
%K Army
%K Urbanism
%K Qanats
%K Dams
%K Field systems
%K Irrigation channels
%U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000523
%P 65-74