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Author(s): Paul Erdkamp, Joseph G. Manning, Koenraad Verboven

ISBN(s): 9783030811020, 3030811026

Edition: 1st ed. 2022

File Details: PDF, 13.70 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-36246524 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology, Society Tags: Ancient Societies, Climate Change, Joseph G. Manning, Koenraad Verboven, Paul Erdkamp

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Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience 1st 2022 Edition Paul Erdkamp – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030811020,3030811026,9783030811037, 3030811034

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ISBN 10: 3030811034
ISBN 13:9783030811037
Author: Paul Erdkamp,Joseph G. Manning , Koenraad Verboven

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE. This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex interactions between the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically Rome and Late Antiquity.

Table contents:

1. A Historian’s Introduction to Paleoclimatology

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

3. Who Follows the Elephant Will Have Problems: Thought on Modelling Roman Responses to Climate (Changes)

4. Famines, Demographic Crises and Climate in Italy 1650–1913

5. Collapse and Resilience in Prehistoric Archaeology: Questioning Concepts and Causalities in Models of Climate-Induced Societal Transformations

6. Climate, State Building and Political Change in Egypt During the Early Bronze Age: A Direct Relation?

7. Vulnerability to Climate Change in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece)

8. Saving Up for a Rainy Day? Climate Events, Human-Induced Processes and Their Potential Effects on People’s Coping Strategies in the Mycenaean Argive Plain, Greece

9. Peloponnesian Land Use Dynamics and Climate Variability in the First Millennium BCE

10. Volcanic Eruptions, Veiled Suns, and Nile Failure in Egyptian History: Integrating Hydroclimate into Understandings of Historical Change

11. The Environmental Imperialism of the Roman Empire in Northwestern Europe

12. Seasonal Drought on Roman Rivers: Transport vs. Irrigation

13. The Antonine Crisis: Climate Change as a Trigger for Epidemiological and Economic Turmoil

14. Climate Change and the Productive Landscape in the Mediterranean Region in the Roman Period

15. Viticulture as a Climate Proxy for the Roman World? Global Warming as a Comparative Framework for Interpreting the Ancient Source Material in Italy and the West (ca. 200 BC–200 AD)

16. Risks for Farming Families in the Roman World

17. Figures in an Imperial Landscape: Ecological and Societal Factors on Settlement Patterns and Agriculture in Roman Italy

18. Hydrological Changes in Late Antiquity: Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Socio-Economic Impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean

19. Resilience and Adaptation at the End of Antiquity. An Evaluation of the Impact of Climate Change in Late Roman Western-Central Anatolia

20. The Social Metabolism of Past Societies: A New Approach to Environmental Changes and Societal Responses in the Territory of Sagalassos (SW Turkey)

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