{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\ud83d\udca7EP048 GUEST EPISODE (2\/8) Mesopotamia: Taming the Euphrates","description":" Part of the \u201cSource of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East\u201d project (Radboud Institute for Culture and History).&amp;nbsp;  Ep2. Mesopotamia: Taming the Euphrates Mesopotamia means \u201cthe land between the rivers.\u201d The fertile silt and life-giving waters from the rivers Tigris and Euphrates allowed the region to develop into a key area of human settlement and culture in the late Holocene around 12000 years ago. In this episode we discuss the earliest settlements in Mesopotamia and how humans have managed their rela.tionship to the rivers in Iraq up until today. Speaker: Jaafar Jotheri. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes. Dr. Jaafar Jotheri is Assistant Professor in Geo-Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah  https:\/\/csm-qadiss.academia.edu\/JaafarJotheri This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and Jouke Heringa.  Further Reading \u201cTigris-Euphrates River System\u201d, Encyclopaedia Britannica, https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system T Wilkinson, L Rayne, J Jotheri, \u201cHydraulic landscapes in Mesopotamia: the role of human niche construction\u201d Water History 7 (4), 397-418  TJ Wilkinson, J Jotheri \u201cThe Origins of Levee and Levee-Based Irrigation in the Nippur Area\u2013Southern Mesopotamia\u201d From Sherds to Landscapes: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of McGuire Gibson, SAOC 71, edited by Mark Altaweel and Carrie Hritz &amp;nbsp;(Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2021).  Edmund Hayes twitter.com\/Hedhayes20 https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edmund-hayes-490913211\/ https:\/\/leidenuniv.academia.edu\/EdmundHayes https:\/\/hcommons.org\/members\/ephayes\/   Abbasid History Podcast is sponspored by IHRC Bookshop Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases online and in-store.&amp;nbsp; Visit IHRC bookshop at shop.ihrc.org and use discount code AHP15 at checkout.&amp;nbsp; Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details. https:\/\/linktr.ee\/abbasidhistorypodcast &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Abbasid History Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.AbbasidHistoryPodcast.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/30624218\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/30624218"}