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0000-0001-5951-5146
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University of Queensland
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Maritime Archaeology | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
Land and Water Management of environments not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage |
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S12685-021-00285-5
Abstract: A short review is presented covering English-language publications where quantitative engineering analysis has been used to study and gain insight into how ancient Roman and Mediterranean water systems functioned. The review covers work on using technical engineering perspectives to try and understand the geometrical layout of water systems, quantitative work of a type readily accomplished by undergraduate civil engineering students, such as calculating the flow capacity of aqueducts and other conduits of known dimensions, and more involved studies using computational techniques usually applied by specialist engineers in research or industry. It is concluded that the many different levels of analyses employed have given insight into how Roman water systems worked, for ex le the amount of water they delivered, and the kinds of issues their designers and operators might have faced. It is hoped that this review will inspire further interdisciplinary study in Archaeohydrology, using modern engineering techniques to lify and extend the story of Roman water systems told by archaeologists.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 28-08-2017
Abstract: Isotopic evidence showing that Rome’s lead water pipes were the primary source of lead pollution in the city’s runoff reveals the sedimentary profile of lead pollution in the harbor at Ostia to be a sensitive record of the growth of Rome’s water distribution system and hence, of the city itself. The introduction of this lead pipe network can now be dated to around the second century BC, testifying to a delay of about a century and a half between the introduction of Rome’s aqueduct system and the installation of a piped grid. The diachronic evolution of anthropogenic lead contamination is able to capture the main stages of ancient Rome's urbanization until its peak during the early high empire.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2023
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5279
Abstract: Fish traps and fish weirs built by Indigenous people in the Barwon‐Darling River system of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB), south‐eastern Australia, are an important component of their traditional social, spiritual and economic systems. The celebrated Brewarrina stone fish traps ( Ngunnhu ) on the Barwon River are the largest and best documented stone fish traps in the Basin. However, there has been minimal research on the many other stone fish traps in this system. This paper focusses on the in‐stream stone fish traps downstream of Brewarrina along the Darling (Baaka) River, some still partly extant, remembered, or documented in historical material. Wooden and earthen bank fish traps and weirs, while not as enduring and archaeologically visible as stone fish traps, were frequently used on the Darling (Baaka) floodplain lakes, sw s and billabongs. Archaeological evidence, traditional cultural knowledge and historical materials are utilised to document the complex social processes and modification of landscapes associated with fish traps and weirs. By demonstrating that Barkandji were active and successful managers of the river and its ecology prior to colonisation, and that much of this cultural knowledge is retained by current generations, the authors make a case for them to renew their custodianship and a decision‐making role in water management.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3885241
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-10-2021
DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1562
Abstract: While levees are typically the focus of attention during floods, and higher levees are commonly demanded by the public for flood protection, levees alone cannot manage floods. Flood ersions take water from a flooding river to reduce stage in the main river, erting excess flow to another location, often providing important ecological functions. Flood ersions are critically important complements to levees in managing floods on the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers, and elsewhere, with early ex les going back 3000 years. Diversions range widely in design and function, so we propose a typology: flood bypasses, reconnected floodplains, compound channels, backwaters, distributaries, and inter‐basin transfers. Flood bypasses route floodwaters around critical reaches, rejoining the river downstream they can be tunnels and hard‐engineered channels or wide areas of floodplain designated to convey flood flows, along a continuum of increasing residence time, greater potential for ecological benefit, but also greater land requirements. Managing the flow split (bifurcation) at the start of the flow ersion can be tricky. The flow split will depend on the angle and elevation difference between main channel and ersion, and can be affected by land subsidence, deposition of sediment, and accumulation of debris in either channel or control structures. One of the greatest challenges is keeping flow paths in the ersion free of development incompatible with inundation, but as these are often private lands and local governments are reluctant to withhold building permits, it has proved difficult to prevent such development, especially when the ersion is active only rarely. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water Sustainable Engineering of Water Water and Life Conservation, Management, and Awareness Science of Water Water Extremes
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 14-09-0030
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-10-1687-2018
Abstract: Abstract. Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and atmospheric circulation. These records are increasingly being used to provide “out-of-s le” evaluations of isotope-enabled climate models. SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) is an international working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. The working group aims to provide a comprehensive compilation of speleothem isotope records for climate reconstruction and model evaluation. The SISAL database contains data for in idual speleothems, grouped by cave system. Stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon (δ18O, δ13C) measurements are referenced by distance from the top or bottom of the speleothem. Additional tables provide information on dating, including information on the dates used to construct the original age model and sufficient information to assess the quality of each data set and to erect a standardized chronology across different speleothems. The metadata table provides location information, information on the full range of measurements carried out on each speleothem and information on the cave system that is relevant to the interpretation of the records, as well as citations for both publications and archived data. The compiled data are available at 0.17864/1947.147.
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 16-05-2016
Abstract: A well-dated sedimentary sequence from the ancient harbor of Naples sheds new light on an old problem: could the great AD 79 Vesuvius eruption have affected the water supply of the cities around the Bay of Naples? We here show, using Pb isotopes, that this volcanic catastrophe not only destroyed the urban lead pipe water supply network, but that it took the Roman administration several decades to replace it, and that the commissioning of the new system, once built, occurred nearly instantaneously. Moreover, discontinuities in the Pb isotopic record of the harbor deposits prove a powerful tool for tracking both Naples’ urbanization and later major conflicts at the end of the Roman period and in early Byzantine times.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-03-2017
DOI: 10.1111/ARCM.12303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 24-09-2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-08-2023
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
Date: 10-07-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 20-03-2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 09-08-2019
Abstract: Abstract. Although quantitative isotope data from speleothems has been used to evaluate isotope-enabled model simulations, currently no consensus exists regarding the most appropriate methodology through which to achieve this. A number of modelling groups will be running isotope-enabled palaeoclimate simulations in the framework of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, so it is timely to evaluate different approaches to using the speleothem data for data–model comparisons. Here, we illustrate this using 456 globally distributed speleothem δ18O records from an updated version of the Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis (SISAL) database and palaeoclimate simulations generated using the ECHAM5-wiso isotope-enabled atmospheric circulation model. We show that the SISAL records reproduce the first-order spatial patterns of isotopic variability in the modern day, strongly supporting the application of this dataset for evaluating model-derived isotope variability into the past. However, the discontinuous nature of many speleothem records complicates the process of procuring large numbers of records if data–model comparisons are made using the traditional approach of comparing anomalies between a control period and a given palaeoclimate experiment. To circumvent this issue, we illustrate techniques through which the absolute isotope values during any time period could be used for model evaluation. Specifically, we show that speleothem isotope records allow an assessment of a model's ability to simulate spatial isotopic trends. Our analyses provide a protocol for using speleothem isotope data for model evaluation, including screening the observations to take into account the impact of speleothem mineralogy on δ18O values, the optimum period for the modern observational baseline and the selection of an appropriate time window for creating means of the isotope data for palaeo-time-slices.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2010
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 11-2023
End Date: 11-2026
Amount: $595,161.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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