Water and Power in Past Societies

Emily Holt is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

• Illustrations1. Water and Power in Past Societies: An IntroductionEmily Holt Part I. Productive Power and the Ecological History of Waterscapes2. The Political Ecology of Chinampa Landscapes in the Basin of MexicoChristopher T. Morehart 3. Irrigation and Social Organization: A Longue Durée Perspective from the Jordan ValleyEva Kaptijn4. Water Management by Mobile Pastoralists in the Middle EastEmily Hammer5. Water and Workshops: Inequality among Mining Sites in Ancient Laurion (Greece)Kim Van Liefferinge Part II. Waterscapes, Power Plays, and Display6. From Elite Villas to Public Spaces: The First Decorative Fountains in Ancient RomeBrenda Longfellow 7. From Urban Oasis to Desert Hinterland: The Decline of Petra’s Water System. The Case of the Petra Garden and Pool ComplexLeigh-Ann Bedal8. Spatial Archaeology, Hydrology, and the Historical Dynamics of Water in Ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman)Michael J. Harrower Part III. Coastal Water9. The Sea and Bronze Age Transformations Christopher Prescott, Anette Sand-Eriksen, and Knut Ivar Austvoll10. Southeast Asian Maritime Power, Seventeenth-Century Spice Wars, and Tiworo’s Neglected FortificationsJennifer L. Gaynor11. The Power of Coastal Resources: Assessing Maritime Economic Opportunity in the Roman MediterraneanJustin LeidwangerPart IV. Water Archaeology: Pasts, Presents, Futures12. Rivers as Material Infrastructure: A Legacy from the Past to the FutureMatt Edgeworth 13. Geologies of Belonging: The Political Ecology of Water in Central AnatoliaÖmür Harmanşah 14. Some Perspectives on the Frequency of Significant, Historically Forcing Drought and Subsistence Crises in Anatolia and RegionSturt W. Manning15. A Framework for Facing the PastVernon L. ScarboroughContributorsIndex