Cover of The wet and the dry

The wet and the dry

by Patrick Vinton Kirch

1994 385 pages eng

Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation syste…

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