The control of water in the kingdom of Qatabān (Yemen): from local to central management of the irrigation systems during antiquity

Wādī Bayḥān is located on the edge of the Ramlat as Sab’atayn desert (Yemen) and constituted the core of the preislamic kingdom of Qatabān. During the 1st millennium B.C., floodwaters caused by summer rainfall were diverted into the fields. Several irrigation systems of this kind were spread all alo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Water history 2015-12, Vol.7 (4), p.473-487
1. Verfasser:	Charbonnier, Julien
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aquatic Pollution Archaeology and Prehistory Civil Engineering Earth and Environmental Science Environment History Humanities and Social Sciences Hydrogeology Waste Water Technology Water Water Management Water Pollution Control
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