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Regional Signifiers and the Many Locations of the ‘Land Between the Rivers’ [PDF]
, 2018 Rune RattenborgConfiguring Mesopotamia: Regional Signifiers and the Many Locationsof the ‘Land Between the Rivers’SummaryIt seems a travesty to reiterate exactly what we mean by ‘Meso-potamia’.
Rattenborg, Rune
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A Simple Approach to Represent Irrigation Water Withdrawals in Earth System Models
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2025.Abstract The increasing demand for water, driven by population growth and agricultural expansion, underscores the need for accurate representation of irrigation in Earth System Models (ESMs). While a few current‐generation ESMs incorporate irrigation, their representation of water withdrawals remains overly simplistic.
Bertrand Decharme +2 more
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Syria Report of the 2006-09 Seasons [PDF]
, 2012 The Italian excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani have recently resumed, revealing a long occupation sequence on the mound’s eastern slope (Area CD). In Trench D23, on the summit, an Iron Age level II building contained a rich array of pottery, sheep knuckle
FALSONE, Gioacchino, Sconzo, P.
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Linking the Flow Regime of Papyrus‐Dominated Wetlands to Biologically Relevant Hydrologic Attributes
Ecohydrology, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT The dominant plant species in many African wetlands is Cyperus papyrus. Its adaptation to saturated and low‐oxygen conditions and its dense structure and height provide breeding and feeding grounds for unique flora and fauna. As a keystone species adapted to local hydrology, the flooding regime of papyrus offers the full range of hydrologic ...
Alem Oyarmoi +3 more
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Ancient and historical cooking pots and food: an eternal communion. A topical review
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 219-234, February 2025.Abstract This contribution provides a topical view at and review of traditional clay‐based utilitarian cooking pots that were used for millennia to prepare, serve, display, and distribute foodstuff. Key mechanical and thermal properties of ceramic cooking vessels will be discussed and strategies of property optimization outlined.
Robert B. Heimann
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La Gestión de los recursos minerales silíceos en las primeras comunidades campesinas en el valle medio del Éufrates : VIIIº-VIIº milenios Cal. B.C. : implicaciones socioeconómicas del proceso de producción lítico / [PDF]
, 2006 Consultable des del TDXTítol obtingut de la portada digitalitzadaEn este trabajo se estudian 15862 restos líticos tallados. 8951 de Akarçay Tepe y 6911 de Tell Halula, yacimientos ubicados en el valle medio del Éufrates. El material lítico de Tell Halula
Borrell Tena, Ferran
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The Euphrates-Tigris-Karun river system: Provenance, recycling and dispersal of quartz-poor foreland-basin sediments in arid climate [PDF]
, 2016 We present a detailed sediment-provenance study on the modern Euphrates-Tigris-Karun fluvial system and Mesopotamian foreland basin, one of the cradles of humanity. Our rich petrographic and heavy-mineral dataset, integrated by sand geochemistry and U–Pb
Akkoca, DB +13 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.The Euphrates Softshell Turtle (Rafetus euphraticus) is an endangered freshwater turtle native to the Tigris‐Euphrates river system. As a key component of their nesting habitat, this study quantitatively assesses the occurrence of sand areas in the upper part of the Tigris in Turkey based on remote sensing data.
Murat Biricik +2 more
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River definitions reciprocally define us
River Research and Applications, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 1747-1753, November 2024.Abstract This article explores different definitions of river, and in doing so, considers how our efforts to define rivers illuminate aspects of the human condition. Through an exploration of our definitions of river, through the human imagination, in poetry, music, and human's actions, this article considers how our nature is reflected back by rivers ...
Antonia Sohns
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