Apr 1, 2024
Part of the “Source of Life: Water
Management in the Premodern Middle East” project (Radboud Institute
for Culture and History).
Ep2. Mesopotamia: Taming the Euphrates
Mesopotamia means “the land between the rivers.”
The fertile silt and life-giving waters from the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates allowed the region to develop into a key area of human
settlement and culture in the late Holocene around 12000 years ago.
In this episode we discuss the earliest settlements in Mesopotamia
and how humans have managed their rela.tionship to the rivers in
Iraq up until today.
Speaker: Jaafar Jotheri. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes.
Dr. Jaafar Jotheri is Assistant Professor in
Geo-Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of
Al-Qadisiyah
https://csm-qadiss.academia.edu/JaafarJotheri
This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and
Jouke Heringa.
Further Reading
“Tigris-Euphrates River System”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system
T Wilkinson, L Rayne, J Jotheri, “Hydraulic landscapes in Mesopotamia: the role of human niche construction” Water History 7 (4), 397-418
TJ Wilkinson, J Jotheri “The Origins of Levee and Levee-Based
Irrigation in the Nippur Area–Southern Mesopotamia” From Sherds
to Landscapes: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of McGuire
Gibson, SAOC 71, edited by Mark Altaweel and Carrie Hritz
(Chicago: The
Oriental Institute, 2021).
Edmund Hayes
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/
https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes
https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/
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