Water of life : essays from a symposium held on the occasion of Peder Mortensen's 80th birthday
| Körperschaft: |
Danish Institute in Damascus
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|---|---|
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Madsen, John Kuhlmann
, [HerausgeberIn]
Andersen, Nils Overgaard , [HerausgeberIn] Thuesen, I. , [HerausgeberIn] |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Copenhagen, Denmark :
Orbis Publishing House,
[2016].
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| Umfang/Format: |
200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus
11 |
| ISBN: | 9788799790821 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Naher Osten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Water in the Hebrew Bible : myth and theology / Hans J.L. Jensen
- Water in sumerian mythology / Nicole Brisch
- The age of water atom trap, Krypton-81, and global groundwater / Zheng-Tian Lu
- Humans in the Moroccan desert [Sahara] during the humid periods of the lower and middle stone ages / Poul Erik Lindelof
- Climate changes and the human impact on rainfall in NW Europe and the Levant / Niels Schroder
- The role of water in the last gatherer-hunter and earliest farming communities of Southwest Asia / Tobias Richter
- Deluge and early Urbanism / Ingolf Thuesen
- The development of urban life in Mesopotamia and the implementation of canal systems / Hans J. Nissen
- Living with and on the river-side the example of Roman Antiochia-on-the-Chrysorrhoas-formerly-called-Gerasa / Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja
- The water system in the decapolis city of Umm Qais [Gadara] / Susanne Kerner
- Life on the edge of the desert : a late antique monastery and its water supply / Louise Blanke
- Water power : the driving force of economic life in the medieval and early modern levant / Stephen McPhillips
- Qanot Romoni : the rehabilitation of ancient underground water tunnels in Syria / Josepha Ivanka Wessels
- The Syrian spring and civil war and the demise of Syrian politics / Jorgen Baek Simonsen
- Paradise on earth : water and the Islamic garden / Kjeld von Folsach
- About the authors.
