PT Journal
AU Kamash, Z
TI Irrigation technology, society and environment in the Roman Near East
SO Journal of Arid Environments
PY 2012
BP 65
EP 74
VL 86
DE Army; Urbanism; Qanats; Dams; Field systems; Irrigation channels
AB 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.
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