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The Rivers of Mesopotamia
Susanne Rutishauser
29.06.2017
https://bop.unibe.ch/baf
Steinkeller 2001: Map 1.
Rutishauser (in Vorbereitung)
69 BC – 395 AD
Byzantine I
395–712 AD
Byzantine II
965–1073 AD
3000–1200 BC
Iron Age
1200–540 BC
1073–1375 AD
Islamic Period
1375 AD –
S P Q R
Rutishauser (in Vorbereitung)
www.virtual-cilicia.org
https://www.google.com/intl/de/earth/
Region: Lower Mesopotamia
Avulsion and Natural Levee
Corona DS1105-2267DA, 20.11.1968
Robert McC. Adams (1981)
Adams 1981: Fig. 6.
Robert McC. Adams (1981)
Adams 1981: Fig. 8, 31.
Piotr Steinkeller (2001)
Steinkeller 2001: 22.
Gasche et al. (2002)
Gasche et al. 2001: 531, Carte 1.
Galina S. Morozova (2005)
Morozova 2005: Fig. 2.
Sergio Alivernini (2017–)
Mar Shiprim 17/2
Literatur
Adams, Robert McC. (1981): Heartland of cities. Surveys of ancient settlement and land use on the central floodplain of the Euphra-
tes. Chicago [etc.]: The University of Chicago Press (1).
Casana, Jesse; Cothren, Jackson (2013): The CORONA Atlas Project: Orthorectification of CORONA Satellite Imagery and Regional-Sca-
le Archaeological Exploration in the Near East. In: Douglas C. Comer und Michael J. Harrower (Hg.): Mapping archaeological landsca-
pes from space. New York, N.Y.: Springer (Springer briefs in archaeology), S. 31–41.
Cole, S. W.; Gasche, Hermann (1998): Second- and first-millenium BC rivers in northern Babylonia. In: Hermann Gasche (Hg.): Chan-
ging watercourses in Babylonia. Towards a reconstruction of the ancient environment in lower Babylonia. Ghent: University of Ghent
[etc.] (Mesopotamian history and environment. Series II, memoirs, 5), S. 1–64.
Gasche, Hermann (Hg.) (1998): Changing watercourses in Babylonia. Towards a reconstruction of the ancient environment in lower
Babylonia. Ghent: University of Ghent [etc.] (Mesopotamian history and environment. Series II, memoirs, 5).
Hritz; Carie; Wilkinson, T. J. (2006): Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia. In: Antiquity 80,
S. 414–424.
Huh, S. (2005): Studien zur Region Lagaš: Von der Ubaid- bis zur Altbabylonischen Zeit. Diss. Münster.
Jacobsen, T. (1960): The Waters of Ur. In: Iraq 22, S. 174. DOI: 10.2307/4199683.
Jacobsen, T. (1969): A Survey of the Girsu (Telloh) Region. Sumer 25, 103–109.
Morzova, Galina S. (2005): A Review of Holocene Avulsions of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and Possible Effects on the Evolution of
Civilizations in Lower Mesopotamia. In: Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 20 (4), S. 401–423.
Nützel, Werner (2004): Einführung in die Geo-Archäologie des Vorderen Orients. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
Pedersén, Olof (2012): Ancient Near Eastern on Google Earth: Problems, Preliminary Results, and Prospects. In:
Pemberton, W.; Postgate, J.N.; Smyth, R.F. (1988): Canals and bunds, ancient and modern. Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture IV,
207–221.
Rattenborg, Rune (2016): Configuring Mesopotamia: regional signifiers and the many locations of the ‘land between the rivers’. In:
Grunwald, S. Hoffmann, Kerstin P., D. Werning und Felix Wiedemann (Hg.): Mapping Ancient Identities. Kartographische Identitäts-
konstruktionen in den Altertumswissenschaften. Berlin: De Gruyter (Topoi. Berlin studies of the ancient world).
Rost, Stephanie (2011): Irrigation Management in the Ur III Period: A Reconsideration based on a Case Study of the Maintenance
of the íd-Nina-šè-du Canal of the Province Lagaš. In: Gebhard J. Selz (Hg.): The empirical dimension of ancient near eastern studies.
Berlin: Lit (Wiener offene Orientalistik, Bd. 6), S. 211–241.
Rost, Stephanie (2017): Water management in Mesopotamia from the sixth till the first millennium B.C. In: WIREs Water 2, e1230.
DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1230.
Rutishauser, Susanne; Erasmi, Stefan; Rosenbauer, Ralph; Buchbach, Ralf (2017): SARchaeology - Detecting palaeochannels based on
high resolution radar data and their impact of changes in the settlement pattern in Cilicia (Turkey). In: Geosciences 7 (2).
Rutishauser, Susanne: Siedlungskammer Kilikien. Wiesbaden: SVA (in Vorbereitung).
Steinkeller, Piotr (2001): New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium. In: Zeitschrift
für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 91 (1). DOI: 10.1515/zava.2001.91.1.22.
Wilkinson, T.J (2003): Archaeological landscapes of the Near East. Tucson (Ariz.): The University of Arizona Press.
Sources and Tools
Sources
•	 Excavation and Survey Reports
•	 Geomorphological Surveys
•	 Textual Evidence
•	 Remote Sensing data
Tools
•	 Database
•	 GIS (Geographic Information System)
ANE Placemarks and...
http://www.lingfil.uu.se/research/assyriology/earth/
... high resolution optical imagery
http://www.lingfil.uu.se/research/assyriology/earth/
Historical Satellite Imagery (Corona)
corona.cast.uark.edu
Historical Satellite Imagery (Corona)
corona.cast.uark.edu
High Resolution Elevation Model (TanDEM-X)
Rutishauser (in Vorbereitung)
https://tandemx-science.dlr.de/; http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/worlddem/
Thank you for your attention!
Foto: Rutishauser

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The Rivers of Mesopotamia

  • 1. The Rivers of Mesopotamia Susanne Rutishauser 29.06.2017 https://bop.unibe.ch/baf
  • 2.
  • 4. Rutishauser (in Vorbereitung) 69 BC – 395 AD Byzantine I 395–712 AD Byzantine II 965–1073 AD 3000–1200 BC Iron Age 1200–540 BC 1073–1375 AD Islamic Period 1375 AD – S P Q R
  • 9. Avulsion and Natural Levee Corona DS1105-2267DA, 20.11.1968
  • 10. Robert McC. Adams (1981) Adams 1981: Fig. 6.
  • 11. Robert McC. Adams (1981) Adams 1981: Fig. 8, 31.
  • 13. Gasche et al. (2002) Gasche et al. 2001: 531, Carte 1.
  • 14. Galina S. Morozova (2005) Morozova 2005: Fig. 2.
  • 16. Literatur Adams, Robert McC. (1981): Heartland of cities. Surveys of ancient settlement and land use on the central floodplain of the Euphra- tes. Chicago [etc.]: The University of Chicago Press (1). Casana, Jesse; Cothren, Jackson (2013): The CORONA Atlas Project: Orthorectification of CORONA Satellite Imagery and Regional-Sca- le Archaeological Exploration in the Near East. In: Douglas C. Comer und Michael J. Harrower (Hg.): Mapping archaeological landsca- pes from space. New York, N.Y.: Springer (Springer briefs in archaeology), S. 31–41. Cole, S. W.; Gasche, Hermann (1998): Second- and first-millenium BC rivers in northern Babylonia. In: Hermann Gasche (Hg.): Chan- ging watercourses in Babylonia. Towards a reconstruction of the ancient environment in lower Babylonia. Ghent: University of Ghent [etc.] (Mesopotamian history and environment. Series II, memoirs, 5), S. 1–64. Gasche, Hermann (Hg.) (1998): Changing watercourses in Babylonia. Towards a reconstruction of the ancient environment in lower Babylonia. Ghent: University of Ghent [etc.] (Mesopotamian history and environment. Series II, memoirs, 5). Hritz; Carie; Wilkinson, T. J. (2006): Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia. In: Antiquity 80, S. 414–424. Huh, S. (2005): Studien zur Region Lagaš: Von der Ubaid- bis zur Altbabylonischen Zeit. Diss. Münster. Jacobsen, T. (1960): The Waters of Ur. In: Iraq 22, S. 174. DOI: 10.2307/4199683. Jacobsen, T. (1969): A Survey of the Girsu (Telloh) Region. Sumer 25, 103–109. Morzova, Galina S. (2005): A Review of Holocene Avulsions of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and Possible Effects on the Evolution of Civilizations in Lower Mesopotamia. In: Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 20 (4), S. 401–423. Nützel, Werner (2004): Einführung in die Geo-Archäologie des Vorderen Orients. Wiesbaden: Reichert. Pedersén, Olof (2012): Ancient Near Eastern on Google Earth: Problems, Preliminary Results, and Prospects. In: Pemberton, W.; Postgate, J.N.; Smyth, R.F. (1988): Canals and bunds, ancient and modern. Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture IV, 207–221. Rattenborg, Rune (2016): Configuring Mesopotamia: regional signifiers and the many locations of the ‘land between the rivers’. In: Grunwald, S. Hoffmann, Kerstin P., D. Werning und Felix Wiedemann (Hg.): Mapping Ancient Identities. Kartographische Identitäts- konstruktionen in den Altertumswissenschaften. Berlin: De Gruyter (Topoi. Berlin studies of the ancient world). Rost, Stephanie (2011): Irrigation Management in the Ur III Period: A Reconsideration based on a Case Study of the Maintenance of the íd-Nina-šè-du Canal of the Province Lagaš. In: Gebhard J. Selz (Hg.): The empirical dimension of ancient near eastern studies. Berlin: Lit (Wiener offene Orientalistik, Bd. 6), S. 211–241. Rost, Stephanie (2017): Water management in Mesopotamia from the sixth till the first millennium B.C. In: WIREs Water 2, e1230. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1230. Rutishauser, Susanne; Erasmi, Stefan; Rosenbauer, Ralph; Buchbach, Ralf (2017): SARchaeology - Detecting palaeochannels based on high resolution radar data and their impact of changes in the settlement pattern in Cilicia (Turkey). In: Geosciences 7 (2). Rutishauser, Susanne: Siedlungskammer Kilikien. Wiesbaden: SVA (in Vorbereitung). Steinkeller, Piotr (2001): New Light on the Hydrology and Topography of Southern Babylonia in the Third Millennium. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 91 (1). DOI: 10.1515/zava.2001.91.1.22. Wilkinson, T.J (2003): Archaeological landscapes of the Near East. Tucson (Ariz.): The University of Arizona Press.
  • 17. Sources and Tools Sources • Excavation and Survey Reports • Geomorphological Surveys • Textual Evidence • Remote Sensing data Tools • Database • GIS (Geographic Information System)
  • 19. ... high resolution optical imagery http://www.lingfil.uu.se/research/assyriology/earth/
  • 20. Historical Satellite Imagery (Corona) corona.cast.uark.edu
  • 21. Historical Satellite Imagery (Corona) corona.cast.uark.edu
  • 22. High Resolution Elevation Model (TanDEM-X) Rutishauser (in Vorbereitung) https://tandemx-science.dlr.de/; http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/worlddem/
  • 23. Thank you for your attention! Foto: Rutishauser