Handbook of Ancient Water Technology (Technology and Change in History): 2 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004111239 ISBN 13: 9789004111233

Publisher: Brill, 2002

Synopsis

A magisterial handbook on water use and water technology in an area from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, from the beginning of the Neolithic period up to ca. A.D. 600. Based on the archaeological and written evidence, it discusses the socio-economic background, irrigation and drainage, water supply, water in recreation (fountains, baths, etc.), larger hydraulic works (canals and sluices, dams, drainage), water-power, water legislation and the administration of water resources.

About this title

Review:

"...a true and worthy successor of Forbes'authorative studies and will be the new standard for many years. All contributors and especially the editor are to be congratulated with their splendid result." - Nathalie de Haan, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2003
"...sistently readable and of high quality." - in: Choice, 2000
"...volume provides an up-to-date overview of problems and the state of the field, in some ways summarizing what is already in print, in others breaking new ground in areas not treated synthetically to date ... every college library and university library should order at least one copy." - Harry B. Evans, in: Classical World

About the Author:

Orjan Wikander, Ph.D. (1980), is Universitetslektor (Associate Professor) in the department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Lund, Sweden. His English-language publications include Deliciae fictiles (1993) and The Exploitation of Water-Power or Technological Stagnation? (1984).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004111239
• ISBN 13: 9789004111233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 756
• Editor: Wikander Örjan