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Title The Nile : natural and cultural landscape in Egypt / Harco Willems, Jan-Michael Dahms (eds.).

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
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Series Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; volume 36
Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 36.
Note "On 22 and 23 February 2013, the Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz organized an international symposium ... The present, peer-reviewed volume offers the proceedings of this symposium."--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scant attention to the way the river impacted on ancient Egyptian society. Egyptologists frequently focus on the textual and iconographic record, whereas archaeologists and earth scientists approach the issue from the perspective of natural sciences. The contributions in this volume bridge this gap by analyzing the river both as a natural and as a cultural phenomenon. Adopting an approach of cultural ecology, it addresses issues like ancient land use, administration and taxation, irrigation, and religious concepts.
Note Contents viewed on May 10, 2017; title from PDF title page.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Modelling the Nile Agricultural Floodplain in Eleventh and Tenth Century B.C. Middle Egypt / Jean-Christophe Antoine -- Harbours and Coastal Military Bases in Egypt in the Second Millennium B.C. / Manfred Bietak -- Development of the Memphite Floodplain / Judith Bunbury, Ana Tavares, Benjamin Pennington and Pedro Gonçalves -- Karnak's Quaysides / Mansour Boraik, Luc Gabolde and Angus Graham -- Medamud and the Nile / Félix Relats Montserrat -- The Nile in the Fayum / Cornelia Römer -- Nilometers - or: Can You Measure Wealth? / Sandra Sandri -- In Search of a Future Companion / Joshua Trampier -- The Dynamic Nature of the Transition from the Nile Floodplain to the Desert in Central Egypt since the Mid-Holocene / Gert Verstraeten, Ihab Mohamed, Bastiaan Notebaert and Harco Willems -- The Analysis of Historical Maps as an Avenue to the Interpretation of Pre-Industrial Irrigation Practices in Egypt / Harco Willems, Hanne Creylman, Véronique De Laet and Gert Verstraeten -- Landscapes of the Bashmur / Penelope Wilson -- Authors.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Language In English.
Subject Nauno-Issledovatelskij Institut Ugrovedenija
Nile River Valley -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Egypt -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Égypte -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500 -- Congrès.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
HISTORY -- General.
Egypt https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDwpX7XgppvP7ww3J9c
Nile River Valley
Wassernutzung
Naturlandschaft
Kulturlandschaft
Ägypten Altertum
Chronological Term To 1500
Indexed Term socio-economic history.
archaeology.
history.
cultural history.
society.
nile.
cultural landscape.
natural landscape.
african history.
environmental history.
nature.
ancient egypt.
cultural ecology.
fluvial dynamics.
egyptology.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Added Author Willems, Harco, editor.
Dahms, Jan-Michael, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Nile. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017] 9783837636154 (OCoLC)970656015
ISBN 9783839436158 (electronic bk.)
383943615X (electronic bk.)
3837636151
9783837636154
9783837636154 (Print-ISBN)
3837636151 (Print-ISBN)
Standard No. 9783837636154
10.14361/9783839436158 doi
AU@ 000060745336
AU@ 000061058312
AU@ 000066338753

 
    
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