A Hard Row to Hoe: Ancient Climate Change from the Crop Perspective

Heinrich, Frits; Hansen, Annette

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7_2

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“…This may, of course, simply reflect a research preference for subsistence strategies or a greater use of the concepts of resilience/sustainability among those who study subsistence strategies. However, at least for climate, it is consistent with archaeological (e.g., [128]) and modern [129] understanding that agricultural productivity and the environment act as the mediating factor between climate and society. The need to manage other natural resources is also reflected in the results.…”

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Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Jacobson¹

2022

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Archaeology is often argued to provide a unique long-term perspective on humans that can be utilised for effective policy-making, for example in discussions of resilience and sustainability. However, the specific archaeological evidence for resilient/sustainable systems is rarely explored, with these terms used simply to describe a community that survived a particular shock. In this study, a set of 74 case studies of papers discussing archaeological evidence for resilience/sustainability are identified and analysed using bibliometric methods. Variables from the papers are also quantified to assess patterns and provide a review of current knowledge. A great variety of scales of analysis, case study locations, stressors, resilient/sustainable characteristics, and archaeological evidence types are present. Climate change was the most cited stressor (n=40) and strategies relating to natural resources were common across case studies, especially subsistence adaptations (n=35), other solutions to subsistence deficiencies (n=23), and water management (n=23). Resilient/sustainable characteristics were often in direct contrast to one-another, suggesting the combination of factors is more important than each factor taken individually. Further quantification of well-defined variables within a formally-produced framework is required to extract greater value from archaeological case studies of resilience/sustainability.

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Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Jacobson¹

2022

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“…This may, of course, simply reflect a research preference for subsistence strategies or a greater use of the concepts of resilience/sustainability among those who study subsistence strategies. However, at least for climate, it is consistent with archaeological (e.g., [134]) and modern [135] understanding that agricultural productivity and the environment act as the mediating factor between climate and society. Further support for these links can be seen in Figure 4, where climate (both as a keyword and stressor), subsistence strategies, and subsistence evidence (zoo-archaeology and seeds) follow similar patterns over time.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 67%

Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Jacobson

2022

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Archaeology is often argued to provide a unique long-term perspective on humans that can be utilised for effective policy-making, for example, in discussions of resilience and sustainability. However, the specific archaeological evidence for resilient/sustainable systems is rarely explored, with these terms often used simply to describe a community that survived a particular shock. In this study, a set of 74 case studies of papers discussing archaeological evidence for resilience/sustainability are identified and analysed using bibliometric methods. Variables from the papers are also quantified to assess patterns and provide a review of current knowledge. A great variety of scales of analysis, case study locations, stressors, resilient/sustainable characteristics, and archaeological evidence types are present. Climate change was the most cited stressor (n = 40) and strategies relating to natural resources were common across case studies, especially subsistence adaptations (n = 35), other solutions to subsistence deficiencies (n = 23), and water management (n = 23). Resilient/sustainable characteristics were often in direct contrast to one-another, suggesting the combination of factors is more important than each factor taken individually. Further quantification of well-defined variables within a formally-produced framework is required to extract greater value from archaeological case studies of resilience/sustainability.

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“…The implications of our findings are far reaching. The Fayum depression, with its villages and canals, was an artificial landscape, an interdependent anthropic ecological system that relied on a variable equilibrium between Nile levels, state power and the agency of local communities (Heinrich & Hansen 2021;Haug 2024). Multiple settlements depended on shared public canals.…”

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Re-dating Roman Karanis, Egypt: radiocarbon evidence for prolonged occupation until the seventh century AD

Motta,

Johnson,

Burton

et al. 2024

Antiquity

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One century after its initial excavation, this article presents the first absolute chronology for the settlement of Karanis in Egypt. Radiocarbon dates from crops retrieved from settlement structures suggest that the site was inhabited beyond the middle of the fifth century AD, the time at which it was previously believed to have been abandoned. These dates add to the complex picture of population fluctuations and the remodelling and reuse of structures at Karanis. Two dates reach into the middle of the seventh century, placing the abandonment of the site in a period of political and environmental transition that changed the physical and social landscape of the Fayum region and beyond.

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A Hard Row to Hoe: Ancient Climate Change from the Crop Perspective

Cited by 4 publications

References 109 publications

Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Re-dating Roman Karanis, Egypt: radiocarbon evidence for prolonged occupation until the seventh century AD

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