La maîtrise de l'eau à Ougarit

Calvet, Yves

doi:10.3406/crai.1989.14726

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“…Drainage systems were also developed, to allow run-off of heavy rainfall during the winter months. These hydraulic technologies largely parallel those identified by Calvet in Late Bronze Age Ugarit [73,74], pointing to the introduction of new practices from the northern Levant. There is no evidence, however, that water management was centrally controlled in the LC towns: there was no systematised drainage system removing waste water from houses, nor any provision for piping clean water around the settlement.…”

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Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland

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This paper examines how water shaped people's interaction with the landscape in Cyprus during the Bronze Age. The theoretical approach is drawn from the new materialisms, effectively a 'turn to matter', which emphasises the very materiality of the world and challenges the privileged position of human agents over the rest of the environment. The paper specifically moves away from more traditional approaches to landscape archaeology, such as central place theory and more recently network theory, which serve to separate and distance people from the physical world they live in, and indeed are a part of; instead, it focuses on an approach that embeds humans, and the social/material worlds they create, as part of the environment, exploring human interactions within the landscape as assemblages, or entanglements of matter. It specifically emphasises the materiality and agency of water and how this shaped people's engagement with, and movement through, their landscape. The aim is to encourage archaeologists to engage with the materiality of things, to better understand how people and other matter co-create the material (including social) world.Land 2018, 7, 104 2 of 16 with which they interacted. This shift in perspective actively embeds humans within the material environment, and draws attention to how human agency is constituted by the matter with which it engages. This is a recursive relationship: matter equally responds to, acts with, and even directs human agency, both enabling and provoking certain responses from the human actor. Therefore, although this approach questions the dominant, privileged position of human agents, it does not advocate that we cease searching for people and their actions within the archaeological record. Indeed, the new materialisms perspective potentially provides a middle ground between empirical, science-based archaeologies and social archaeology [5], bridging the intellectual gap that has developed between studies of the environment and artefacts: the former traditionally as a resource to be exploited and mastered, and the latter as objects created by, belonging to, and imbued with meaning by people. Central Places, Networks, or New Materialisms? People in the LandscapeIn this paper, I address the interactions of people with, and within, the Bronze Age landscape of Cyprus. Previously, archaeological studies of settlement and landscape have drawn upon central place theory and network theory. Central place theory [6] looks at political and economic relationships of settlements within a wider rural territory, specifically identifying locales that serve as the economic, sociopolitical, and ideological hub. There is an understanding that these are urban in character and have a centralised administrative role, such as the collection of taxes. Jimenez and Garcia (p. 85) [7] provide us with several criteria for the archaeological identification of a central place. This should be the largest site in the region, dominating it administratively, economically, and physically (presumably through ideo...

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Section: Watery Entanglements In the Cypriot Hinterlandmentioning

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Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland

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Calvezella, a New Replacement Name for Aragonella Calvez, 1989 (Type-Species A. Marginata), a Forgotten Orbitolinid From the Albian of Spain

Schlagintweit¹

2019

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Calvez (1989) described a new orbitolinid as Aragonella marginata n. gen., n. sp. from the Albian of Spain. The genus name however is a junior homonym of Hantkenina (Aragonella) Thalmann, 1942, an Eocene foraminiferal genus. In accordance with Article 60.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the new replacement name Calvezella is introduced for Aragonella Calvez, 1989. This taxonomic revision leads to the new combination Calvezella aragonata (Calvez, 1987) for its only species.

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La maîtrise de l'eau à Ougarit

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Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland

Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland

Calvezella, a New Replacement Name for Aragonella Calvez, 1989 (Type-Species A. Marginata), a Forgotten Orbitolinid From the Albian of Spain

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