Hydrology, Ideology, and the Origins of Irrigation in Ancient Southwest Arabia

Harrower, Michael J.

doi:10.1086/587890

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“…Wadi Sana offered relatively attractive opportunities, albeit opportunities that changed considerably through time. Through geomorphic survey and satellite imagery analysis we defined seven landform types: bedrock slopes, scree slopes, plateaus, bedrock terraces, wadi channels, wadi silts, and gravel terraces (Harrower, 2008a;Harrower et al, 2002). The first five of these landforms rarely (if ever) offered suitable habitats for grazing and probably never offered opportunities for cultivation.…”

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“…widened) according to Strahler stream order (1st order ¼ 100 m, 2nd ¼ 250 m, 3rd ¼ 400 m, 4th ¼ 550 m) delineating a 7920 ha area of bottomlands along middle and lower Wadi Sana. Overlaying this buffer area on a landform classification layer produced from ASTER satellite imagery (Harrower, 2006(Harrower, , 2008a shows that wadi silt and gravel terrace landforms (areas that most plausibly could have sustained grass) today comprise approximately 1767 hectares postincision (McCorriston et al, in press), and during the early Holocene (pre-incision) these landforms would have covered a much wider area offering considerable grazing territories for cattle and other wild and domestic ruminants.…”

Section: Models Of Pastoral Grazing and Agro-pastoral Irrigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previously reported results modeled the distribution of 174 ancient irrigation structures along Wadi Sana identified by archaeological survey (Harrower, 2008a(Harrower, ,b, 2010. These analyses employed a higher resolution 15 m DEM extracted from ASTER imagery and show clear associations between locations of irrigation structures, water flow accumulation, and alluvial sediments.…”

Section: Models Of Pastoral Grazing and Agro-pastoral Irrigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hydro-geospatial analysis of ancient pastoral/agro-pastoral landscapes along Wadi Sana (Yemen)

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Oches

McCorriston

2012

Journal of Arid Environments

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Section: Topographic and Landform Analysesmentioning

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Hydro-geospatial analysis of ancient pastoral/agro-pastoral landscapes along Wadi Sana (Yemen)

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McCorriston

2012

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“…Technological developments in LiDAR are changing how archaeologists investigate and study the history of archaeological remains under vegetation and even under water in rivers or seas [44]. Microtopographic feature analysis using airborne LiDAR data has been proven to effectively identify Chu tombs in Jingzhou.…”

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A Microtopographic Feature Analysis-Based LiDAR Data Processing Approach for the Identification of Chu Tombs

Wang

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Most of the cultural sites hidden under dense vegetation in the mountains of China have been destroyed. In this paper, we present a microtopographic feature analysis (MFA)-based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data processing approach and an archaeological pattern-oriented point cloud segmentation (APoPCS) algorithm that we developed for the classification of archaeological objects and terrain points and the detection of archaeological remains. The archaeological features and patterns are interpreted and extracted from LiDAR point cloud data to construct an archaeological object pattern database. A microtopographic factor is calculated based on the archaeological object patterns, and this factor converts the massive point cloud data into a raster feature image. A fuzzy clustering algorithm based on the archaeological object patterns is presented for raster feature image segmentation and the detection of archaeological remains. Using the proposed approach, we investigated four typical areas with different types of Chu tombs in Central China, which had dense vegetation and high population densities. Our research results show that the proposed LiDAR data processing approach can identify archaeological remains from large-volume and massive LiDAR data, as well as in areas with dense vegetation and trees. The studies of different archaeological object patterns are important for improving the robustness of the proposed APoPCS algorithm for the extraction of archaeological remains.

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“…Delle, 1999;González-Ruibal, 2012;Joseph, 1993;Lucas, 2009;McGuire, 1991;Ogundiran, 2014;Rodning, 2011). Beyond the edge of the historical record these investigations become more difficult, but here too archaeologists have identified ideology's effect on settlement patterns (Harrower, 2008;Siegel, 2010) and vice versa (Hutson & Welch, 2014;Love, 2013). Change in ideology may spur the contestation, abandonment, or destruction of old sacred sites (Bolender, Steinberg, & Damiata, 2011;Lucas et al, 2009;Oland, 2014).…”

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Islamicization Strategies in Kao Ancient Village, North Halmahera

Handoko¹,

Mujabuddawat²,

Whittaker³

2018

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The Kao Ancient Village settlement site is located in the hinterland of North Halmahera, standing on relatively wet ground flanked by the river Aer Kalak, Ake Ngoali, and Ake Jodo and surrounded by sago and swamp forests. The settlement conditions on the site make it limited for residential space, but a community of Kao people settled in this area for a relatively long period of time between 100-200 years and even recorded in history that Kao region is the main food supplier for Ternate in the past. This research conducted surface surveys and limited excavations, then mapped the areas of artifactual findings, and identified patterns of spatial use by analyzing surface features and artifact scatters. Variety of archeological data both artifacts and oral traditions are then analyzed guided by relevant reference sources. The results show that Kao Site is an advanced settlement and has a significant role as the center of Islamicization in Halmahera. The Kao people settled for a long time in one location supported by water sources and the potential of farming lands making the Kao area a part of bustling trade networks. Kao became part of a strategy in spreading Islam to other inland areas, as well as coastal areas in North Halmahera.

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Hydrology, Ideology, and the Origins of Irrigation in Ancient Southwest Arabia

Cited by 79 publications

References 60 publications

Hydro-geospatial analysis of ancient pastoral/agro-pastoral landscapes along Wadi Sana (Yemen)

Hydro-geospatial analysis of ancient pastoral/agro-pastoral landscapes along Wadi Sana (Yemen)

A Microtopographic Feature Analysis-Based LiDAR Data Processing Approach for the Identification of Chu Tombs

Islamicization Strategies in Kao Ancient Village, North Halmahera

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