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Hadramaut valley and the ancient walled town of Shibam surrounded
by the embankments and the channels of the traditional system of
flood sharing and cultivation of the fields, most of which are now
abandoned. |
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The
caves, as Palaeolithic temples of memory and central elements of stability
in the network of mobility, were the places where the vestal virgins kept
their transportable gardens containing aromatic, medical or hallucinogenic
plants; guarded the fire, harvested the water, decorated the walls and
looked after the first animal-marvels that were the result of domestication.
These caves were the centres of subsequent productive changes in the environment.
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