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The dams and water management systems of Minoan Pseira / Philip P. Betancourt ; with an appendix by Floyd W. McCoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betancourt, Philip P., 1936- author.
- McCoy, Floyd (Floyd W.), author of appendix.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Minoan.
- Irrigation engineering.
- Water-supply engineering.
- Bronze age.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Pseira (Extinct city).
- Pseira Island (Greece)--Antiquities.
- Pseira Island (Greece).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Pseria Island.
- Bronze age--Greece--Pseria Island.
- Water-supply engineering--Greece--Pseria Island.
- Irrigation engineering--Greece--Pseria Island.
- Architecture, Minoan--Greece--Pseira Island.
- Greece--Pseira Island.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : INSTAP Academic Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Excavations at the Bronze Age seaport on Pseira Island uncovered the remains of sophisticated water retention systems that included the addition of retaining walls to prevent erosion, massive dams with associated reservoirs, and small check-dams to ravines that reached over one hundred meters in length in order to control water runoff and make it available for human use. Agriculture was one of the cornerstones of the Bronze Age Cretan economy, and it is no surprise that the ancient inhabitants of the island went to great lengths to control water runoff and make it available for human use. Desp.
- Contents:
- List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Pseiran Agricultural Crisis in the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C.; 3 The Pseiran Water Management Systems; 4 Comments and Discussion; Appendix; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-87) and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Betancourt, Philip P., 1936- author. Dams and water management systems of Minoan Pseira.
- ISBN:
- 9781623030001
- 1623030005
- OCLC:
- 852159826
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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