{"product_id":"life-on-the-watershed-reconstructing-subsistence-in-a-steppe-region-using-archaeological-survey-9789088900297","title":"Life on the Watershed. Reconstructing Subsistence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the  Near East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a  region people should be able to structurally attain more water  than rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area  should not only identify when people inhabited such a region and  what the character of this habitation was, but also how people  were able to survive in such a region and why they chose to live  there in the first place. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this book these questions have been studied for the Zerqa  Triangle; a region in the middle Jordan Valley around Tell Deir  'Alla (Jordan). By means of a detailed pedestrian archaeological  survey the intensity of habitation of the region from the  Neolithic to early modern periods is investigated. Efforts have  been undertaken to reconstruct the agricultural practices in the  various periods and simultaneously the means by which the  different communities were able to practice agriculture; in other  words, how did they irrigate the land? By focussing on the  different social responses of communities, conclusions have been  drawn on how and why people managed to create a living in this  arid, but potentially very fertile region. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book not only contributes to the ongoing discussion of the  archaeology of marginal areas, but also provides a huge amount of  new data on the archaeology of the Jordan Valley, both in the  form of newly discovered settlement sites from several different  periods as well as remains from several more inconspicuous types  of human activity present in the countryside.","brand":"Sidestone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047071514967,"sku":"9789088900297","price":48.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789088900297.jpg?v=1750970154","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-on-the-watershed-reconstructing-subsistence-in-a-steppe-region-using-archaeological-survey-9789088900297","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}