The Nile and ancient Egypt : changing land- and waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman era /
The tale of human habitation of the Nile Valley is a long one and includes famine, disaster, global environmental events and human resolve told against a background of ever-changing landscape. In this volume, Judith Bunbury examines the region over a 10,000 year period, from the Neolithic to the Rom...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 seesaw: 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 across 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 the Roman period
- development of large-scale Nile water management
- From Coptic to 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?