books.google.com - What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes—their use of mud, reed, wood, and bitumen, and their husbandry...http://books.google.com/books/about/Iraq_s_marsh_Arabs_in_the_Garden_of_Eden.html?id=xq2pGshMG3oC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIraq's marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden.