Perspectives on water management systems in Mesopotamia

Summary

Over the years, Vern Scarborough has considered how water management systems have been created, altered, and in some cases abandoned, especially in response to the evolution of political systems. For a Mesopotamianist, Vern's work obviously resonates with that of Robert McC. Adams. In this paper I review some of the lasting contributions of Adams to the study of water management systems in Mesopotamia. I review especially a series of essays that Adams wrote after his retirement from the Smithsonian.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• The Contributions of Vernon Scarborough in Water Management and Sustainability, Part 1: Global and Comparative

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