Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet /

This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define 'intermediate,' which means that they are often simple, low in cost and they depend on loc...

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Main Author: Guttmann-Bond, E. B. (Erika B.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2019.
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