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Ancient Water Technologies Hard cover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Larry W. Mays
- New
- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Ancient Water Technologies
- Author Larry W. Mays
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
- Date 2010-06-19
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9789048186310_pod
- ISBN 9789048186310 / 9048186315
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010922811
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.7
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today's world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy threaten the existence of aquifers and watercourses that have supplied our needs for millennia.
It provides an overview of the water technologies developed by a number of ancient civilizations, from those of Mesopotamia and the Indus valley to later societies such as the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Persians, and the ancient Egyptians. Of course, no book on ancient water technologies would be complete without discussing the engineering feats of the Romans and Greeks, yet as well as covering these key civilizations, it also examines how ancient American societies from the Hohokams to the Mayans and Incas husbanded their water supplies. This unusually wide-ranging text could offer today's parched world some solutions to the impending crisis in our water supply.