World Archaeology, Volume 41 Issue 1(2009/03)
Tablet of contents
The archaeology of water: introductory note, Page 1
State formation and water resources management in the Horn of Africa: the Aksumite Kingdom of the northern Ethiopian highlands, Pages 2 - 15
Federica Sulas; Marco Madella; Charles French
Wittfogel's dilemma: heterarchy and ethnographic approaches to irrigation management in Eastern Africa and Mesopotamia, Pages 16 - 35
Matthew I. J. Davies
Long-term management of water in the Central Levant: the Hawran case (Syria), Pages 36 - 57
F. Braemer; D. Genequand; C. Dumond Maridat; P. -M. Blanc; J. -M. Dentzer; D. Gazagne; P. Wech
Is the hydraulic hypothesis dead yet? Irrigation and social change in ancient Yemen, Pages 58 - 72
Michael J. Harrower
Canals versus horses: political power in the oasis of Samarkand, Pages 73 - 87
Sebastian Stride; Bernardo Rondelli; Simone Mantellini
Water management and labour in the origins and dispersal of Asian rice, Pages 88 - 111
Dorian Q. Fuller; Ling Qin
A robust budding model of Balinese water temple networks, Pages 112 - 133
J. Stephen Lansing; Murray P. Cox; Sean S. Downey; Marco A. Janssen; John W. Schoenfelder
Medieval waterways and hydraulic economics: monasteries, towns and the East Anglian fen, Pages 134 - 150
Duncan Sayer
Original design, tribal management and modifications in medieval hydraulic systems in the Balearic Islands (Spain), Pages 151 - 168
Helena Kirchner
Engineered highlands: the social organization of water in the ancient north-central Andes ( AD 1000~1480), Pages 169 - 190
Kevin Lane