The Nile and Ancient Egypt: Changing Land- And Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era

ISBN-13: 9781107012158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 196 str.

Judith Bunbury

Opis

The economic, political and historical story of the Nile in ancient times is unearthed through its landscape.

Spis treści

1. Humans and climate change: how past peoples can inform our responses to landscape and climate change; 2. The green deserts: lakes and playas of the Saharan wet phases; 3. The climate see-saw: the balance between hunter-gathering and farming in the wadis and marshes of the Nile Valley; 4. The development of Egypt's capitals: condensation of the Nile into meandering channels with inhabited levees; 5. Climate change and crisis: differing views of devolution during the First Intermediate Period; 6. Islands in the Nile; 7. The Flood and the New Delta; 8. Renewed Strength in the South: the rise of Thebes (Karnak) and management of the minor channels of the Nile; 9. High tides of Empire: the New Kingdom to Roman period: development of whole Nile water management; 10. Coptic-Islamic times: a well-documental movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon; 11. Modern changes to Egypt: dams and irrigation, can we ever control the Nile?; Appendix I. The principles of borehole logging.