TY - CHAP
T1 - Human Rivers
AU - Gamble, Ruth
AU - Tan, Gillian G.
AU - Xu, Hongzhang
AU - Beavis, Sara
AU - Maurer, Petra
AU - Pittock, Jamie
AU - Powers, John
AU - Wasson, Robert J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Ruth Gamble, Gillian G. Tan, Hongzhang Xu, Sara Beavis, Petra Maurer, Jamie Pittock, John Powers and Robert J. Wasson.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - This chapter traces the longue durée of human–river relations in the Asian Highlands. It begins with the initial peopling of Highland river valleys around 30,000 to 15,000 BP. Then, it traces human interventions with rivers through the time of the Tibetan Empire (seventh to ninth centuries CE), and its various successor states up to the eighteenth century. It focuses on the markers of the human–river relationship: fishing, pastoral watering, irrigation, boats and ferries, bridges, drinking water, and sewerage systems. This long view tracks changes and continuities in community and political understandings of river systems. It is accompanied by a boxed sidebar that describes the rivers’ human–fish relations.
AB - This chapter traces the longue durée of human–river relations in the Asian Highlands. It begins with the initial peopling of Highland river valleys around 30,000 to 15,000 BP. Then, it traces human interventions with rivers through the time of the Tibetan Empire (seventh to ninth centuries CE), and its various successor states up to the eighteenth century. It focuses on the markers of the human–river relationship: fishing, pastoral watering, irrigation, boats and ferries, bridges, drinking water, and sewerage systems. This long view tracks changes and continuities in community and political understandings of river systems. It is accompanied by a boxed sidebar that describes the rivers’ human–fish relations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208314518&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003392033-6
DO - 10.4324/9781003392033-6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85208314518
SN - 9781032490588
SP - 128
EP - 149
BT - Rivers of the Asian Highlands from Deep Time to the Climate Crisis
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -