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The Hydraulic State - Science and Society in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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The Hydraulic State - Science and Society in the Ancient World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology
underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World
Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used
in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range
of methods and techniques, some new to archaeology, Ortloff
analyzes various ancient water systems such as agricultural field
system designs known in ancient Peruvian and Bolivian Andean
societies, water management at Nabataean Petra, the Roman Pont du
Garde water distribution castellum, the Minoan site of Knossos and
the water systems of dynastic (and modern) China, particularly the
Grand Canal and early water systems designed to control flood
episodes. In doing so the book greatly increases our understanding
of the hydraulic/hydrological engineering of ancient societies
through the application of Complexity Theory, Similitude Theory and
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, as well as traditional
archaeological analysis methods. Serving to highlight the
engineering science behind water structures of the ancient World
Heritage sites discussed, this book will be of interest to
archaeologists working on landscape archaeology, urbanism,
agriculture and water management.
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