Environments and Landscapes of Greek Culture

Foxhall, Lin

doi:10.1002/9780470996799.ch13

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“…One advantage of Mediterranean environmental history is the ability to draw upon a very rich, if skewed and fragmentary, corpus of sources that gives insight into the social contexts of environments. But it is also quite critical to pay attention to the ways in which ancient literary or documentary texts have structured our narratives of economic and ecological developments (Foxhall, 2006). This slippage is relevant to the 8th-5th centuries on Cyprus, for which we rely on scattered references in later Greek and Roman thought that overemphasize the island's copper In productiveness, [Cyprus] is inferior to none of the islands, for it is rich in wine and in oil and has enough grain for its needs (autarkei) ….…”

Section: Recent Interdisciplinary Research In the Vasilikos And Maronmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene

Kearns

2017

History Compass

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The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic impacts on earth systems such as climate, leading to a controversial proposal that we are living in an Anthropocene epoch, when humans have become unprecedented forces of global change. The status of the Anthropocene as a historiographical period poses an opportunity to consider how archeologists and historians conceive of environmental and social change in Mediterranean antiquity. Scholarship has tended to focus on regional landscapes or large‐scale climatic accounts of the rise and fall of societies and less on the politics and social dimensions of human–environment relationships. Although bridging the small and large scales of these interactions poses challenges, recent research on the island of Cyprus during the Archaic period highlights the possibilities of an archeological approach to the intersections between social and environmental Mediterranean histories and their material contexts.

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Section: Recent Interdisciplinary Research In the Vasilikos And Maronmentioning

confidence: 99%