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DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.11.006
	'All sunshine makes a desert'. Building interdisciplinary understanding of survival strategies of ancient communities in the arid Zerqa Triangle, Jordan Valley
	Kaptijn, Eva 1; Ertsen, Maurits W.2
通讯作者	Kaptijn, Eva
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2019
卷号	163 页码:114-126
英文摘要	Archaeological studies typically describe arid areas as extremely unpleasant areas for human occupation and use. Without suggesting that arid areas are pleasant places, however, this paper provides a reassessment of the meaning of aridity for an area showing a vast amount of evidence of (past) human activities. Several climatic proxy data suggest that at the transition between the late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (around c. 1300-1100 BC) the southern Levant witnessed more arid conditions, while after 1100 BC relatively moist conditions would have prevailed. In drylands, small changes in temperature and water availability can have large effects on subsistence options. Building on cooperation between an archaeologist and a water scholar, this paper offers an approach to study how people in the past were able to craft a livelihood in the arid environments in the southern Levant and elsewhere. Focusing on the Zerqa area, the paper explores the potential of this cooperation by studying effects of climatic changes at the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age through a modelling approach. Changes in temperature and moisture availability were simulated, showing that increased aridity could have been met by either naturally available water (especially groundwater) or artificially added water (although the timing appears to be crucial). While the model approach under discussion offers an approximation of the past, it shows the potential impact of climatic changes on the subsistence of past communities. It shows that details can mean the difference between survival or collapse.
英文关键词	Irrigation modelling Climate change Late Bronze Age crisis Resilience Ancient water management
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Belgium ; Netherlands
开放获取类型	Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000459236300013
WOS关键词	LATE BRONZE-AGE ; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY ; SOUTHERN LEVANT ; VEGETATION ; COLLAPSE ; HISTORY
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/216720
作者单位	1.Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, Directorate Earth & Hist Life, Vautierstr 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; 2.Delft Univ Technol, Dept Civil Engn & Geosci, Water Resources Management, POB 5041, NL-2600 GA Delft, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kaptijn, Eva,Ertsen, Maurits W.. 'All sunshine makes a desert'. Building interdisciplinary understanding of survival strategies of ancient communities in the arid Zerqa Triangle, Jordan Valley[J],2019,163:114-126.
APA	Kaptijn, Eva,&Ertsen, Maurits W..(2019).'All sunshine makes a desert'. Building interdisciplinary understanding of survival strategies of ancient communities in the arid Zerqa Triangle, Jordan Valley.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,163,114-126.
MLA	Kaptijn, Eva,et al."'All sunshine makes a desert'. Building interdisciplinary understanding of survival strategies of ancient communities in the arid Zerqa Triangle, Jordan Valley".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 163(2019):114-126.