干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Water harvesting as a key for understanding adapted ancient livelihoods in an arid environment - Approaches to dryland archaeology in the Eastern Marmarica (NW-Egypt)

Arid

DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.02.009
	Water harvesting as a key for understanding adapted ancient livelihoods in an arid environment - Approaches to dryland archaeology in the Eastern Marmarica (NW-Egypt)
	Vetter, Thomas 1; Rieger, Anna-Katharina 2
通讯作者	Vetter, Thomas
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2019
卷号	171
英文摘要	The Marmarica, an arid region in NW-Egypt between the Jebel el Akhdar to the west and the Nile Valley to the east, offers rich evidence for understanding the interlinkages of scarce natural resources, above all water and soil and their human utilization in antiquity. Analysing the natural hydrological regime depending on rainfall, soils and topography in the region and the man-made interventions lies at the heart of this landscape archaeological study. Integrating evidence from various disciplines (hydrology, geomorphology, soil science, archaeobiological methods, ceramic studies, evaluation of literary sources based on papyri) and from various periods (late 2nd millennium BCE to 7th century CE) allowed for the reconstruction of the ancient water management and the related life-strategies. An assessment of climatic conditions and morphological features of the Eastern Marmarica is provided, where wadis, alluvial fans, but also lateral wadi slopes and to a certain extent even parts of the vast tableland plains represent favourable geomorphological units for water harvesting and hence, agricultural production. Yet, a characteristic that sets the Marmarican systems apart from those in other arid regions are cultivated terrace systems (run-in areas) that are located on lower lateral valley slopes and even on the tableland plains. The results provide insights into the long-term responses of the inhabitants in antiquity to catchment hydrology by water harvesting and the effects of their interventions, the adapted livelihoods, regional specialization of rural production and intra- and interregional exchange of goods. However, new questions arose regarding i) the implications of the ancient water management strategy for the social organisation of the local people, ii) the destinations of locally produced pottery, iii) the habitational and land-use patterns before the Graeco-Roman period, iv) the role and range of climatic shifts, and v) reasons for the decline of the sophisticated runoff management.
英文关键词	Runoff agriculture Libyan desert Catchment hydrology Reconstructing ancient dryland livelihoods
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Germany ; Austria
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000497258500007
WOS关键词	RUNOFF ; CLIMATE ; SYSTEMS ; AREA ; AGRICULTURE ; VARIABILITY ; SEA
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
EI主题词	2019-12-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/311301
作者单位	1.Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; 2.Karl Franzens Univ Graz, Graz, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vetter, Thomas,Rieger, Anna-Katharina. Water harvesting as a key for understanding adapted ancient livelihoods in an arid environment - Approaches to dryland archaeology in the Eastern Marmarica (NW-Egypt)[J],2019,171.
APA	Vetter, Thomas,&Rieger, Anna-Katharina.(2019).Water harvesting as a key for understanding adapted ancient livelihoods in an arid environment - Approaches to dryland archaeology in the Eastern Marmarica (NW-Egypt).JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,171.
MLA	Vetter, Thomas,et al."Water harvesting as a key for understanding adapted ancient livelihoods in an arid environment - Approaches to dryland archaeology in the Eastern Marmarica (NW-Egypt)".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 171(2019).