Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]
, 2016 Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan river II: Infrastructure impeding the transformation of equitable transboundary water arrangements [PDF]
, 2019 This article explores the ways in which key components of infrastructure built on the Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River induce or impede the transformation of existing transboundary water arrangements.
Abdallah, Chadi +4 more
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The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]
, 2007 In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
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Groundwater Depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with Implications for Transboundary Water Management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran Region [PDF]
, 2013 In this study, we use observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission to evaluate freshwater storage trends in the north-central Middle East, including portions of the Tigris and Euphrates River Basins and western ...
De Linage, Caroline +5 more
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Morphology of Tigris River within Baghdad City [PDF]
, 2012 In recent years, substantial changes have occurred in the morphology of the River Tigris within Baghdad City. Although huge volumes of sediment are being trapped in recently constructed headwater reservoirs, the number of islands in the Tigris at Baghdad
A. A. Ali, N. A. Al-Ansari, S. Knutsson
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Tilbeshar au carrefour d'échanges entre la vallée de l'Euphrate et la côte méditerranéenne.
, 2010 International audienceWith a maximum area of 56 hectares, Tilbeshar is a major city of Southeast Anatolia in the Bronze Age. It is the center of a small territory and belongs to the vast network of exchanges, particularly active in the third and early ...
Kepinski, Christine
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Reticulated origin of domesticated emmer wheat supports a dynamic model for the emergence of agriculture in the fertile crescent [PDF]
, 2013 We used supernetworks with datasets of nuclear gene sequences and novel markers detecting retrotransposon insertions in ribosomal DNA loci to reassess the evolutionary relationships among tetraploid wheats.
A Haudry +58 more
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Technopolitical Construction of a River Basin: Turkey's Encounters and Adventures with the "TVA Idea". [PDF]
NTM, 2023 Alkan A.
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Pastoral Nomads of the Second and Third Millennia AD on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey: Archaeological Evidence from the Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey [PDF]
, 2009 The importance of non-sedentary pastoralist groups in the social and political history of Mesopotamia has long been appreciated from the perspective of ancient texts and ethnohistorical sources, but empirical evidence from archaeology has been lacking ...
Hammer, Emily, Ur, Jason
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Satellite observations of temporal terrestrial features [PDF]
The application of satellite data to earth resources and environmental studies and the effects of resolution of the photographs and imagery are discussed.
Rabchevsky, G. A.
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