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were certainly capable of digging branch canals of lesser importance on their own” (van Driel 1988: p. 130). Finally, it is telling that the central administration in Achaemenid Babylonia leased entire canals, “from intake to tail,” to entrepreneurs, a handy source of income, and that these private persons aggressively established date plantations on land adjacent to canals and rivers (van Driel 1988: p. 145). This anthropogenic expansion of gardens, previously much less visible in the cuneiform record, undoubtedly altered the micro‐environment of the region, just as afforestation has in many parts of the world (e.g. Abu Dhabi) in our own time.

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