By Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson
ISBN-10: 0415230012
ISBN-13: 9780415230018
Many dryland areas include archaeological is still which recommend that there should have been extensive stages of cost in what now appear to be dry and degraded environments. This booklet discusses successes and screw ups of prior land use and cost in drylands, and contributes to wider debates approximately desertification and the sustainability of dryland cost.
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The image of ruined cities in North Africa, from which olive oil and timber were exported in ancient times but which were buried beneath desert sand, epitomizes the environmental factor in the decline of civilization…. Roman dams and canals stand in dry wadis today as witness to the fact that the destruction of the vegetation and consequent desiccation have changed the The archaeology of drylands 12 environment. , Chapter 8), often in association with reference to times of perceived political unrest, military invasion, conflict and drought.
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