Table of Contents

Illustrations

1. Water and Power in Past Societies: An Introduction
Emily Holt

Part I. Productive Power and the Ecological History of Waterscapes

2. The Political Ecology of Chinampa Landscapes in the Basin of Mexico
Christopher T. Morehart

3. Irrigation and Social Organization: A Longue Durée Perspective from the Jordan Valley
Eva Kaptijn

4. Water Management by Mobile Pastoralists in the Middle East
Emily Hammer

5. Water and Workshops: Inequality among Mining Sites in Ancient Laurion (Greece)
Kim Van Liefferinge

Part II. Waterscapes, Power Plays, and Display

6. From Elite Villas to Public Spaces: The First Decorative Fountains in Ancient Rome
Brenda Longfellow

7. From Urban Oasis to Desert Hinterland: The Decline of Petra’s Water System. The Case of the Petra Garden and Pool Complex
Leigh-Ann Bedal

8. Spatial Archaeology, Hydrology, and the Historical Dynamics of Water in Ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman)
Michael J. Harrower

Part III. Coastal Water

9. The Sea and Bronze Age Transformations
Christopher Prescott, Anette Sand-Eriksen, and Knut Ivar Austvoll

10. Southeast Asian Maritime Power, Seventeenth-Century Spice Wars, and Tiworo’s Neglected Fortifications
Jennifer L. Gaynor

11. The Power of Coastal Resources: Assessing Maritime Economic Opportunity in the Roman Mediterranean
Justin Leidwanger

Part IV. Water Archaeology: Pasts, Presents, Futures

12. Rivers as Material Infrastructure: A Legacy from the Past to the Future
Matt Edgeworth

13. Geologies of Belonging: The Political Ecology of Water in Central Anatolia
Ömür Harmanşah

14. Some Perspectives on the Frequency of Significant, Historically Forcing Drought and Subsistence Crises in Anatolia and Region
Sturt W. Manning

15. A Framework for Facing the Past
Vernon L. Scarborough

Contributors
Index

About the Author

Emily Holt is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.