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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Longue Durée Water Histories and Geospatial Technologies: Case Studies from Iran and Iraq
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SUMMARY:Longue Durée Water Histories and Geospatial Technologies: Case Studies from Iran and Iraq
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<strong>Harvard Archaeology Program Seminar Series Spring 2018 Schedule</strong></p><p>	<strong>Mehrnoush Soroush</strong><strong>,</strong> Harvard University</p><p>	Water sustains life. The topic of water management has been tied to anthropological discourse on sociopolitical complexity by the striking fact that early civilizations appeared in arid and semi-arid environments. Archaeological research has contributed to this topic, primarily through research on incipient irrigation and well-preserved landscapes of empires and states. This talk will take the discussion in a different direction: How we can investigate continuity, gradual transformations, and long-term processes in water history archaeologically? Specifically, what possibilities do advances in geospatial technologies offer for looking into landscapes of ancient irrigation from a long-term perspective. This topic will be presented through a study of ancient canal systems at the city of Shushtar in southwestern Iran, and through a new project on qanat (subterranean water systems) landscapes at the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan.  </p>
LOCATION:Room 203, Tozzer Anthropology Building, 21 Divinity Ave. 
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