SoHP: An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East
Date and Time
November 16, 2017
04:00PM - 05:30PM EST
Location
HUCE Seminar Room 440 (4th Floor), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Gideon Avni,
Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University
Included will be a discussion on projects of OSL dating fields, the early Islamic agricultural estates, the mechanism of introduction and diffusion of qanats in the Near East and beyond (north Africa, Iran and the east), in relation to the main issues raised by Andrew Watson’s pioneering research.
