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The dams and water management systems of Minoan Pseira

Excavations at the Bronze Age seaport on Pseira Island uncovered the remains of sophisticated water retention systems that included the addition of retaining walls to prevent erosion, massive dams with associated reservoirs, and small check-dams to ravines that reached over one hundred meters in len...

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VerfasserIn: Betancourt, Philip P. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia : INSTAP Academic Press , 2012
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Online Zugang:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fgvwf
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als: Dams and water management systems of Minoan Pseira
Verantwortlich:Philip P. Betancourt ; with an appendix by Floyd W. McCoy
E-Book-Pakete:JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies
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520 |a List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Pseiran Agricultural Crisis in the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C.; 3 The Pseiran Water Management Systems; 4 Comments and Discussion; Appendix; References; Index. 
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