Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

by Edward L. Ochsenschlager

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193170774X
• ISBN13: 9781931707749
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"