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WAT E R E N G I N E E R I N G I N T H E A N C I E N T WO R L D
To my brother, Walter H. and parents Walter C. and Johanna
E. Ortloff—your unbounded encouragement to explore man’s
engineering creations in my early years ultimately led to this book.
Water Engineering in the
Ancient World
Archaeological and Climate Perspectives on
Societies of Ancient South America,
the Middle East, and South-East Asia
CHARLES R. ORTLOFF
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Great Clarendon Street, Oxford
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