The origin and diffusion of Qanats in Arabia: New evidence from the northern and southern Peninsula

Geographical Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 215-226

  Lightfoot, D R ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabia; Qanat; Water resources

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CANAL; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0033820613     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2000.tb00021.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Filtration-gallery irrigation in the Spanish New World
2. The qanat: A means of water provision from groundwater sources
3. Diqal and Muqaydah: Dying oases in Arabia
4. The origin and evolution of foggara oases in the Algerian Sahara
5. Qanats, field systems and morphology: Rectangularity on the Iranian Plateau
6. Qanats and rural societies: Sustainable agriculture and irrigation cultures in contemporary Iran
7. The early Arabian necropolis of Ain Jawan
8. Irrigation in Persia by kanats
9. Similarities in hydraulic systems of the near east and the Etruscans
10. Construire et protoger son terroir: Les oasis d'Oman a 'Age du Bronze
11. Exploring Bahrain's qanats
12. Ancient Arabia: Explorations in Hasa 1940-41
13. Recent agricultural developments in Saudi Arabia
14. New approach to the radiocarbon dating of rock varnish, with examples from drylands
15. Aflaj renewal in Araqi: A village case study from Oman
16. The origin and spread of qanats in the old world
17. Tapping underground water: The chain of wells
18. Qanats and human ecosystems in Iran
19. The qanat system in Iran
20. Some notes on diffusion of qanats
21. The water system of Taibe oasis
22. Les qanat en Syrie
23. The origin, diffusion, and functioning of the qanat
24. Malaria, Irrigation, and soil erosion in central Syria
25. Moroccan khettara: Traditional irrigation and progressive desiccation
26. Syrian qanat Romani: History, ecology, abandonment
27. Qanats in the Levant: Hydraulic technology at the periphery of early empires
28. Ghayl and miyan in Arabia Felix: The ecology and history of qanats in Yemen
29. Sijilmassa: The rise and fall of a walled oasis in medieval Morocco
30. The water-supply system in the margin of the Dasht-E-Kawir (central Iran)
31. Outline of the history of ancient southern Arabia
32. Qanats and spring flow tunnels in the Holy Land
33. La foggara, systeme hydraulique antique, serait-elle toujours concevable dans la mise en valour des eaux souterraines en Syrie?
34. Some irrigation systems in Hadramawt
35. The ports of Aden and Shihr
36. Observations on irrigation in South West Arabia
37. The coastal population of Socotra
38. Have you anything to declare? Maritime trade and commerce in Ayyubid Aden: Practices and taxes
39. Sweet water for the hottest land
40. The origins of the Omani state
41. The qanats of Iran