The Nile and ancient Egypt : changing land- and waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era

1. Verfasser: Bunbury, Judith , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019].
Umfang/Format: xvi, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Agriculture > Nile River Valley.
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Nile River Valley > History > To 1500.
Water resources development > Nile River > History > To 1500.
Water-supply > Nile River Watershed > Management > History.
Nile River > History.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Humans and climate change: how past peoples can inform our responses to landscape and climate change
  • The green deserts: lakes and playas of the Saharan wet phases
  • The climate see-saw: the balance between hunter-gathering and farming in the wadis and marshes of the Nile Valley
  • The development of Egypt's capitals: condensation of the Nile into meandering channels with inhabited levees
  • Climate change and crisis: differing views of devolution during the First Intermediate Period
  • Islands in the Nile
  • The flood and the New Delta
  • Renewed strength in the South: The rise of Thebes (Karnak) and management of the minor channels of the Nile
  • High tides of empire: The New Kingdom to Roman Period: development of whole Nile water management
  • Coptic-Islamic times: a well-documental movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
  • Modern changes to Egypt: dams and irrigation, can we ever control the Nile?

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