Ghayl and Miyan in Arabia Felix: The Ecology of Diffusion and Recession of Use
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Abstract
In the centuries before the first Christian millenium, Yemen was prosperous territory. “Arabia Felix,” happy or prosperous Arabia, was the name given by the Romans to this important trade region. During these last centuries BCE., Persians in the east were devising an ingenious method for collecting water from mountain aquifers, sending this water underground to more level alluvial plains. This system, known generically as a qanat, was later transplanted elsewhere by the Persians, and by those who borrowed their technology. Many scholars have accounted for their constructions in other lands, but this chapter in the diffusion of technology has been left with notable gaps, and one of these gaps concerns Arabia Felix. Ghayl and miyan, local vernacular terms for qanats in the west and east of Yemen, are relatively rare here. This paucity of qanats may be the result of Achaemenid and Parthian qanat builders bypassing the indigenous Yemeni kingdoms and only later introducing this technology during the florescenc...
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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