Visit Us | Contact Us | Membership | Make a Gift | Calendar | Order Online | What's New

Print this Page

Home > Research > Publications > Catalog of Publications > Miscellaneous Publications

Miscellaneous Publications

book cover

Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology

Karl W. Butzer

Download PDF Terms of Use

Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt is a fundamental contribution to knowledge of the cultural ecology of civilization in the Nile Valley. While the book extends the temporal range of publications scheduled for the Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology series well into more recent millennia, the nature of the problems Butzer treats and the perspective in which they are seen are obviously as central to the series' purpose as works dealing with early prehistory. This is the first effective attempt to isolate, understand, and synthesize the critical factors involved in the rise of an "irrigation civilization."

  • Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology
  • Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1976
  • Pp. xv + 134; 4 tables, 14 figures
  • 0-226-08635-6
  • Out of Print

Revised: December 20, 2012

Home > Research > Publications > Catalog of Publications > Miscellaneous Publications