Climate change and ancient societies in Europe and the Near East : diversity in collapse and resilience /: diversity in collapse and resilience. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Erdkamp, Joseph G. Manning, Koenraad Verboven.
• Editors: Erdkamp, Paul; Manning, Joseph G; Verboven, Koenraad
• Contents: 1. Chapter 1: A historian's introduction to paleoclimatology.- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective.- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes).- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises and climate in Italy, 1650-1913.- Chapter 5: Collapse and resilience in prehistoric archaeology: Questioning concepts and causalities in models of climate-induced societal transformations.- Chapter 6: Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during the Early Bronze Age: a direct relation?.- Chapter 7: Vulnerability to climate change in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece).- Chapter 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.- Chapter 9: Peloponnesian land-use dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BCE.- Chapter 10: Volcanic eruptions, veiled Suns, and Nile failure in Egyptian history: Integrating hydroclimate into understandings of historical change.- Chapter 11: The environmental imperialism of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe.- Chapter 12: Seasonal drought on Roman rivers: transport vs. irrigation.- Chapter 13: The Antonine crisis: Climate change as a potential trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil.- Chapter 14: Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean region in the Roman period.- Chapter 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–AD 200).- Chapter 16: Risks for farming families in the Roman World.- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy.- Chapter 18: Hydrological changes in Late Antiquity: spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean.- Chapter 19: Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity. An evaluation of the impact of climate change in Late Roman western-central Anatolia.- Chapter 20: The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (Turkey).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 551.694; Climatic changes -- Eurasia -- History -- To 1500; Climatic changes -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on; Climate and civilization; Neolithic period -- Eurasia; Neolithic period -- Italy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030811037
• Related ISBNs: 9783030811020
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