According to archeological and historical records, the Bahrain Islands of the Arabian Gulf were the home of a flourishing civilization four thousant years ago. Then, as now, these islands served as an important locus of maritime trade, but they were also characterized as a land of copious artesian springs and fertile fields. Modern Bahrain, in contrast, is beset by environmental and demographic problems: the depletion of the artesian water supply, abandonment of rural agricultural lands, and rapid population growth. In this exemplary interdisciplinary study, Curtis E. Larsen combines archeological, geological, historical, and anthropological methods to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental and socioeconomic context that links Bahrain's present to its past.
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Curtis E. Larsen is currently an archeologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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During the third millennium B.C., three highly complex social systems associated with major population centers appeared in the Middle East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
light brown ware, light orange ware, ridged ware, southwest coastal plain, dark red ware, tempered red ware, buff ware, diagnostic flints, fine orange ware, flint site, buff slip, gulf seals, bedded anhydrite, maritime trade network, archeological sequence, more moist conditions, sand tempered, cream slip, burnished red slip, fine sandy silt, flint assemblages, gray ware, diagnostic pottery, period tomb, tomb fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Early Dynastic, Early Islamic, Indus Valley, Red Sea, Gulf of Bahrain, Early Holocene, Far East, Old Babylonian, Persian Gulf, Qatar Peninsula, Middle East, Near East, Sasanian Persia, Abu Dhabi, Barbar Temple, Early Dilmun, Failaka Island, Government of Bahrain, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Safavid Persia, Sargon of Agade New!
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During the third millennium B.C., three highly complex social systems associated with major population centers appeared in the Middle East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
light brown ware, light orange ware, ridged ware, southwest coastal plain, dark red ware, tempered red ware, buff ware, diagnostic flints, fine orange ware, flint site, buff slip, gulf seals, bedded anhydrite, maritime trade network, archeological sequence, more moist conditions, sand tempered, cream slip, burnished red slip, fine sandy silt, flint assemblages, gray ware, diagnostic pottery, period tomb, tomb fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Early Dynastic, Early Islamic, Indus Valley, Red Sea, Gulf of Bahrain, Early Holocene, Far East, Old Babylonian, Persian Gulf, Qatar Peninsula, Middle East, Near East, Sasanian Persia, Abu Dhabi, Barbar Temple, Early Dilmun, Failaka Island, Government of Bahrain, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Safavid Persia, Sargon of Agade New!
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