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Book Title: Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present
Book Editor(s): Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel
Published by: UCL Press

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Contents

List of figures xi
List of tables xv
List of contributors xvii

1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary research into water

management and societies 1
Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel

Part I:  Modelling long-term change 15

2. Holocene evolution of rivers, climate and human societies

in the Indus basin 17
Peter D. Clift and Liviu Giosan

3. Habitat hysteresis in ancient Egypt 40

Judith Bunbury

4. Geoarchaeology of prehistoric moated sites and water

management in the Middle River Yangtze, China 62
Duowen Mo and Yijie Zhuang

5. Rice fields, water management and agricultural development

in the prehistoric Lake Taihu region and the Ningshao Plain 87
Yijie Zhuang

Part II:  Technologies across time and space 109

6. Recognition criteria for canals and rivers in the

Mesopotamian floodplain 111
Jaafar Jotheri

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 7. The Udhruh region: A green desert in the hinterland
of ancient Petra 127
Mark Driessen and Fawzi Abudanah

8. Flowing into the city: Approaches to water management

in the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala, Turkmenistan 157
Tim Williams

9. Water management across time: Dealing with too much

or too little water in ancient Mesopotamia 180
Mark Altaweel

10. Framing urban water sustainability: Analysing

infrastructure controversies in London 200
Sarah Bell

Part III:  Water and societies 221

11. Early Indian Buddhism, water and rice: Collective

responses to socio-ecological stress: Relevance for global
environmental discourse and Anthropocene studies 223
Julia Shaw

12. Water for the state or water for the people? Wittfogel in
South and South East Asia in the first millennium 256
Janice Stargardt

13. Agricultural development, irrigation management and

social resilience in ancient Korea 269
Heejin Lee

14. Quoting Gandhi, or how to study ancient irrigation when

the future depended on what one did today 289
Maurits W. Ertsen
Index 309

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