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Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia

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ANTIQUITY
Volume 80, Issue 308, Pages 415-424

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00093728

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Mesopotamia; Bronze Age; Sasanian; irrigation; digital mapping

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The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is currently producing a digital elevation model of most of the world's surface. Here the authors assess its value in mapping and sequencing the network of water channels that provided the arterial system for Mesopotamia before the petrol engine.

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