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Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden by Ochsenschlager, Edward L. is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden about?
What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes—their use of mud, reed, wood, and bitumen, and their husbandry of cattle, water buffalo, and sheep—he chronicles what is now a lost way of life. He helps us understand ancient manufacturing processes, an artifact's significance and the skill of those who create
Who reads Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ochsenschlager, Edward L.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781934536759
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Science, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25