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02589aam a2200373 a 4500 001 A0C8C0A66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 120709s2012 mauabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012027504 020 $a 0674066936 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780674066939 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)792887065 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d TFW $d IAD $d ORX $d TOZ $d IAD $d ERASA $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TD345 M644 2012 100 1 $a Mithen, Steven J. 245 10 $a Thirst : $b water and power in the ancient world / $c Steven Mithen with Sue Mithen. 250 $a 1st Harvard University Press ed. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xvii, 347 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Thirst: For knowledge of the past and lessons for the future -- The water revolution: The origins of water management in the Levant, 1.5 million years ago to 700 BC -- 'The black fields became white/the broad plain was choked with salt': Water management and the rise and fall of Sumerian civilisation, 5000-1600 BC -- 'Water is the best thing of all' - Pindar of Thebes, 476 BC: Water management by the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Ancient Greeks, 1800-146 BC -- A watery paradise in Petra: The Nabataeans, masters of the desert, 300 BC-AD 106 -- Building rivers and taking baths: Rome and Constantinople, 400 BC-AD 800 -- A million men with teaspoons: Hydraulic engineering in Ancient China, 900 BC-AD 907 -- The hydraulic city: Water management by the kings of Angkor, AD 802-1327 -- Almost a civilisation: Hohokam irrigation in the American South-West, AD 1-1450 -- Life and death of the water lily monster: Water and the rise and fall of Mayan civilisation, 2000 BC-AD 1000 -- Water poetry in the Sacred Valley: Hydraulic engineering by the Incas, AD 1200-1572 -- An unquenched thirst: For water and for knowledge of the past. 650 0 $a Water-supply $x History. 650 0 $a Water use $x History. 650 0 $a Water consumption $x History. 650 0 $a Civilization, Ancient. 700 1 $a Mithen, Sue. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mithen, Steven J. $t Thirst. $d Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2012 $z 9780674072183 $w (OCoLC)819330029 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091033.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605022714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A0C8C0A66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search