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Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands
Curtis E. Larsen
其他書名
The Geoarchaeology of an Ancient Society
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 1983
主題
History / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
Nature / Ecology
Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Social Science / General
Social Science / Archaeology
Social Science / Human Geography
ISBN
0226469069
9780226469065
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q65mRSPPU6UC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
According to archeological and historical records, the Bahrain Islands of the Arabian Gulf were the home of a flourishing civilization four thousant years ago. Then, as now, these islands served as an important locus of maritime trade, but they were also characterized as a land of copious artesian springs and fertile fields. Modern Bahrain, in contrast, is beset by environmental and demographic problems: the depletion of the artesian water supply, abandonment of rural agricultural lands, and rapid population growth. In this exemplary interdisciplinary study, Curtis E. Larsen combines archeological, geological, historical, and anthropological methods to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental and socioeconomic context that links Bahrain's present to its past.