Book contents
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Humans and Climate Change: How Past Peoples Can Inform Our Responses to Landscape and Climate Change
- 2 The Green Deserts: Lakes and Playas of the Saharan Wet Phases
- 3 The Climate Seesaw: The Balance between Hunter-Gathering and Farming in the Wadis and Marshes of the Nile Valley
- 4 The Development of Egypt’s Capitals: Condensation of the Nile into Meandering Channels with Inhabited Levees
- 5 Climate Change and Crisis: Differing Views of Devolution across the First Intermediate Period
- 6 Islands in the Nile
- 7 The Flood and the New Delta
- 8 Renewed Strength in the South: The Rise of Thebes (Karnak) and Management of the Minor Channels of the Nile
- 9 High Tides of Empire: The New Kingdom to the Roman Period – Development of Large-Scale Nile Water Management
- 10 From Coptic to Islamic Times: A Well-Documented Movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
- 11 Modern Changes to Egypt: Dams and Irrigation: Can We Ever Control the Nile?
- Appendix Landscape Interpretation Tips
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2019
Book contents
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Humans and Climate Change: How Past Peoples Can Inform Our Responses to Landscape and Climate Change
- 2 The Green Deserts: Lakes and Playas of the Saharan Wet Phases
- 3 The Climate Seesaw: The Balance between Hunter-Gathering and Farming in the Wadis and Marshes of the Nile Valley
- 4 The Development of Egypt’s Capitals: Condensation of the Nile into Meandering Channels with Inhabited Levees
- 5 Climate Change and Crisis: Differing Views of Devolution across the First Intermediate Period
- 6 Islands in the Nile
- 7 The Flood and the New Delta
- 8 Renewed Strength in the South: The Rise of Thebes (Karnak) and Management of the Minor Channels of the Nile
- 9 High Tides of Empire: The New Kingdom to the Roman Period – Development of Large-Scale Nile Water Management
- 10 From Coptic to Islamic Times: A Well-Documented Movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
- 11 Modern Changes to Egypt: Dams and Irrigation: Can We Ever Control the Nile?
- Appendix Landscape Interpretation Tips
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Nile and Ancient EgyptChanging Land- and Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era, pp. ix - xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019