The hydraulic set‑up of Bayt al‑Ashwal valley: a case study

The survey carried out during this campaign (17 November to 4 December) had the goal of ascertaining whether the modulation in size and technical sequence detected in the 1998 survey and analysis of hydraulic systems in the Zafâr area were equally discernible in adjoining valleys. The hydraulic systems that had been studied earlier (see Figure 1) had turned out to have a noticeably smaller size than previous archaeological studies had supposed. It rapidly became obvious that we were in fact d...