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Agricultural sustainability and environmental change at ancient Gordion / John M. Marston.

By: Marston, John M [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Gordon special studies ; 8Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2017Description: xii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781934536919 (hardcover : acidfree paper); 1934536911 (hardcover : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Agriculture, Ancient -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Sustainable agriculture -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Landscape changes -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Social change -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Environmental archaeology -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Social archaeology -- Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city) | Gordion (Extinct city) | Gordion (Extinct city) -- Environmental conditionsDDC classification: 630.939/26 LOC classification: DS156.G6 | M37 2017
Contents:
1. People, Environments, and Agriculture at Ancient Gordion -- 2. Modeling Agricultural Decision Making and Risk Management -- 3. Biogeography and Paleoclimate of the Gordion Region -- 4. Wood Use and Landscape Change -- 5. Agriculture, Risk, and Environmental Change -- 6. Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability in Agricultural Systems -- Appendix A. Phytogeographic Communities at Gordion -- Appendix B. Wood Charcoal Identification Guide.
Scope and content: "This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt's excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. I argue that different political and economic systems implemented over time at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural decision making that were well adapted to the social setting of farmers in each period, but that these practices had divergent environmental impacts, with some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural practices and others leading to significant environmental change. The implications of this book are twofold: Gordion will now be one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East, and serve as a valuable comparable dataset for regional synthesis of agricultural and environmental change. The methods developed to reconstruct agricultural change at Gordion function as tools to engage questions about the relationship between social and environmental change at sites worldwide. Other books address similar themes but no work on the Near East address these themes in diachronic perspective as done at Gordion"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-193) and index.

1. People, Environments, and Agriculture at Ancient Gordion -- 2. Modeling Agricultural Decision Making and Risk Management -- 3. Biogeography and Paleoclimate of the Gordion Region -- 4. Wood Use and Landscape Change -- 5. Agriculture, Risk, and Environmental Change -- 6. Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability in Agricultural Systems -- Appendix A. Phytogeographic Communities at Gordion -- Appendix B. Wood Charcoal Identification Guide.

"This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt's excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. I argue that different political and economic systems implemented over time at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural decision making that were well adapted to the social setting of farmers in each period, but that these practices had divergent environmental impacts, with some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural practices and others leading to significant environmental change. The implications of this book are twofold: Gordion will now be one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East, and serve as a valuable comparable dataset for regional synthesis of agricultural and environmental change. The methods developed to reconstruct agricultural change at Gordion function as tools to engage questions about the relationship between social and environmental change at sites worldwide. Other books address similar themes but no work on the Near East address these themes in diachronic perspective as done at Gordion"--Provided by publisher.