Word: nabateans
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces, broke fencing, ate the water-hugging groves of trees and stunted tamarisk, and sent the area back to desert. Silt choked the irrigation canals, sand jammed the thousands of storage cisterns, salt caked the wells. And on the Nabatean dew mounds, carefully constructed 2,000 years ago of millions of pebbles to catch and condense the desert morning dew and trickle it onto the seeded earth below, buzzards took up roost...
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