Les barrages‑poids des régions montagneuses d’Arabie du Sud au cours de la période préislamique

From the Bronze Age to the present day, inhabitants of South Arabia have given priority to the diversion of floodwater to irrigate their fields. During the first centuries of the Christian era, however, a new irrigation technique was adopted in the western mountains. Dams were built to retain and st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julien Charbonnier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa 1993-01-01
Series:Arabian Humanities
Subjects:
dam
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cy/1795