Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy.

Garland, Robert; Gallant, Thomas W.

doi:10.2307/2165533

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“…In this context, the high degree of market production in southern Greece is particularly interesting. While much previous emphasis has been given to subsistence farming in the Archaic and Classical Greek world (Finley 1973;Garnsey and Morris 1989;Gallant 1991;Sallares 1991;Isager and Skydsgaard 1992), regional studies have also discussed olive cultivation in the context of broader market production and its effects on landscape developments in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods. 19 Previous arguments for increasing market production have usually been based on evidence from survey data as well as evidence from written sources.…”

Section: Pre-roman Market Integration: Olives and Cerealsmentioning

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Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Izdebski

Słoczyński

Bonnier

et al. 2020

The Economic Journal

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In this paper we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from environmental history, we interpret our estimated trends in the regional presence of cereal, olive, and vine pollen as proxies for structural changes in agricultural production. We present evidence that there was a market economy in ancient Greece and a major trade expansion several centuries before the Roman conquest. Our results are consistent with auxiliary data on settlement dynamics, shipwrecks, and ancient oil and wine presses.

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Section: Pre-roman Market Integration: Olives and Cerealsmentioning

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Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Izdebski

Słoczyński

Bonnier

et al. 2020

The Economic Journal

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“…Es por ello que, en palabras de P. Halstead (2006: 47), to maintain good medium-and long-term levels of crop production in the Mediterranean without long fallow periods, it is necessary to manure fields […] 18 . Así pues, la disponibilidad de estiércol es un elemento crítico para el desarrollo en época preindustrial de métodos agrícolas intensivos (Gallant, 1991) en general, y de la 16. Las tesis de Watson no están, tampoco a este respecto, exentas de problemas (e.g., AUBAILE-SA-LLENAVE, 1984; DECKER, 2009; SQUATRITI, 2014; VAN DER VEEN, 2010; ROWLEY-CONWY, 1989); y es que, como apunta VAN DER VEEN (2010), las innovaciones agrícolas se derivan más de cambios y adaptaciones que de innovaciones y adopciones.…”

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De huertas y rebaños: reflexiones históricas y ecológicas sobre el papel de la ganadería en al-Ándalus y aportaciones arqueozoológicas para su estudio

García¹,

García²

2018

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El estudio del cambio agrario operado en la Península a raíz de la conquista árabo-islámica del 711 se ha centrado principalmente en el proceso de difusión de la agricultura irrigada. Sin embargo, resulta sorprendente el escaso número de estudios sobre otras prácticas agrarias como las que conciernen al aprovechamiento de las cabañas ganaderas, un tema de investigación que ha sido solo superficialmente explorado debido en parte a suposiciones apriorísticas, como la que presupone la disociación existente entre ganadería y agricultura irrigada en al-Ándalus. En este trabajo se propone una reconsideración del papel de la ganadería en la economía agraria andalusí. En primer lugar, se exponen una serie de reflexiones que cuestionan la validez de algunos de los argumentos que han contribuido a lastrar el estudio de la actividad pecuaria en al-Ándalus. En segundo lugar, se alude al papel que la práctica ganadera desempeña en el contexto de la producción agraria tradicional, destacando la importancia del estiércol para el mantenimiento de una agricultura intensiva como la irrigada. Por último, se presentan algunos de los principales resultados derivados del estudio arqueozoológico de contextos andalusíes, cuya lectura agroecológica contribuye a mejorar nuestra comprensión del sistema agrario andalusí y del papel que pudo desempeñar en él la actividad pecuaria.

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“…Another similar area of focus is the exploitation of nondomesticated plants—the species of the “uncultivated landscape” (Amigues, ; Amouretti, ; Forbes, ). Plant resources in this category include both wood and foraged plants, whose remains can yield important evidence on topics such as responses to subsistence crises and medicinal cultures (Gallant, ; Scarborough, ; Totelin, ). Whereas much attention has been focused by Greek historians on forestry in connection with the construction of structures and ships, a broader debate has also raged over the extent of deforestation that occurred in Greece from the later fourth millennium BCE onwards.…”

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The environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece: The contribution of environmental archaeology

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This article provides an overview of the environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece with particular reference to material evidence, outlining current trends in work on the relationships between humans and the flora, fauna, and climate of Greece from the fifth to first centuries BCE. Whereas scholars of more modern periods have embraced environmental history, historians of ancient Greece have been slow to do so. Most research on environmental history in the premodern Greek world has focused on prehistoric periods, with only a narrow set of topics relating to Classical and Hellenistic periods discussed, such as deforestation, erosion, and agriculture. In recent decades, however, the increased prominence of subdisciplines dealing with the study of organic archaeological material, such as palaeobotany and zooarchaeology, as well as advances in the archaeological sciences, especially in techniques like stable isotope analysis, has yielded much of interest for historians. I suggest in particular that historians more familiar with written sources or nonorganic archaeological remains can play a crucial rule in contextualizing this evidence by integrating it into their studies of social, economic, and political history. This is especially the case with climate change, evidence of which in the ancient Greek world is rapidly accumulating but with which ancient historians have only begun to contend.

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Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy.

Cited by 106 publications

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Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

De huertas y rebaños: reflexiones históricas y ecológicas sobre el papel de la ganadería en al-Ándalus y aportaciones arqueozoológicas para su estudio

The environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece: The contribution of environmental archaeology

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