Water Management in Ancient Civilisations

Welcome/Introduction

Strategies for Water Supply in Arabia Petraea during Nabataean through Early Islamic Periods: Local Adaptions of the Regional ‘Technological Shelf‘

Coffee Break

Watermanagement - Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Group and Topic

The Ancient Hydraulic Landscape of Los Vélez, SE Spain

Discussion

Lunch Break

Irrigation and Water Course Management in the 3rd Millennia B.C.E. Southern Mesopotamia

Palaeo-Environmental Condition Factors on the Diffusion of Ancient Water Technologies

Coffee Break

The Water Lifting Devices and the Origin of Ancient Mechanics: Shaduf, Pulley and Axle in the Wheel

Irrigation Communities in the Roman World through Epigraphic Sources and Justinian´s Digest

Legal Solutions for Water Sharing within various Natural Environments: The Case of the Roman Empire

Discussion

Landscape Archaeology and Water Management in Spain

Traditional Watermanagement in Eastern Andalusia, Spain

Coffee Break

Water Management in Assyria - The Case of the Habur Canals, Syria

Watermanagement in 3rd Millennium Mesopotamia: Cuneiform Evidence from the Early Dynastic IIIb City-State of Lagash (24th century B.C.E.)

Discussion

Poster Session

Lunch Break

Swimming Pools and Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean World of the 4th to 1st century B.C.E.

Some Reflections on the Typology of the Ancient Aqueduct of Galermi (Syracuse, Italy)

Coffee Break

3-D Scans of Egyptian Water-Clocks - How new Methods may help to reveal the Investigation of Time Measurement

Final Discussion