In West Asia and especially Mesopotamia, the 8.2 kiloyear event was a 300-year aridification and cooling episode, which may have provided the natural force for Mesopotamian irrigation agriculture and surplus production that were essential for the earliest class-formation and urban life.
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Evidence from Huaynun? as well as the dates from other Casma Valley sites, indicate that larger-scale irrigation agriculture, use of pottery, and weaving did not appear in the Casma Valley area until about 1600 BC, some 200 years later than similar occurrences on the central coast of Peru.
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The Ubaid period pottery of southern Mesopotamia has been connected via Choga Mami transitional ware to the pottery of the Samarra period culture ( c . 5700 4900 BC C-14 ) in the north, who were the first to practice a primitive form of irrigation agriculture along the middle Tigris River and its tributaries.
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There is evidence of sustained contact between the BMAC and the Eurasian steppes to the north, intensifying c . 2000 BCE . In the delta of the Amu Darya where it reaches the Aral Sea, its waters were channelled for irrigation agriculture by people whose remains resemble those of the nomads of the Andronovo Culture.
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In an editorial entitled " Living through a recurring nightmare " in its Friday online edition, the independent Ethiopian daily Addis Tribune wrote : " While the disaster is mainly attributed to the failure of two rainy seasons, it should also be admitted that no meaningful and extensive efforts were made on the part of the government to conserve and use rainwater and rivers for irrigation agriculture.
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"' Hanumanthagowda Krishnegowda Patil "'( Kannada : ????????????????????????) ( born : 15 August 1953, Hulkoti, Gadag ) is an Minister for textiles major irrigation agriculture and Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Karnataka and Leader of Opposition and Member of Karnataka Legislative Council.
