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DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.010
	A review of the rise and fall of ancient desert runoff agriculture in the Negev Highlands - A model for the southern Levant deserts
	Avni, Yoav 1; Avni, Gideon 2; Porat, Naomi 1
通讯作者	Avni, Yoav
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2019
卷号	163 页码:127-137
英文摘要	The rise and fall of desert agriculture in the southern Levant has been debated among scholars for the last 200 years, in the chronological, the socio-political and the environmental context. Based on c. 31 OSL ages of sediments from agricultural terraces in various sites in the Negev Highlands, the main phase of ancient desert agriculture was dated to between the 3rd-4th centuries CE and the 10th-11th centuries CE (Avni et al., 2013). Within this longue duree process of agricultural activities, no significant environmental or climatic change was observed coinciding with the Byzantine-Islamic transition in the 7th century CE. Our research, which focused on the natural processes that influenced the rise and fall of the Negev desert agriculture, found that the agricultural installations were sustainable for at least 700 years and parts of these agricultural constructions are still in use today. This long period of usage is a clear indication of their robust design and their good adaptation to the desert environment, despite possible short-term climatic fluctuations. However, continuous flooding, gulling, soil erosion and siltation required constant maintenance of agricultural systems by the local farmers. In addition, the political and economic changes that followed the Byzantine-Islamic transition triggered a gradual decrease in the economic value of the products of desert agriculture, followed by a disruption of the social-political balance between local farmers and herders. These made the desert runoff agriculture less viable, leading to its final demise after the 10th century CE. Therefore, a direct link between the rise and fall of desert runoff agriculture and the claimed climatic changes in the southern Levant seems unlikely.
英文关键词	Desert agriculture Climate fluctuations Resilience Negev Highlands Southern Levant
类型	Review
语种	英语
国家	Israel
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000459236300014
WOS关键词	SYSTEMS ; ENVIRONMENT ; DESERTIFICATION ; PALEOCLIMATE ; PLEISTOCENE ; TRANSITION ; INCISION ; CLIMATES
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/2XILL650/216730
作者单位	1.Geol Survey Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel St, IL-95501 Jerusalem, Israel; 2.Israel Antiqu Author, POB 586, IL-91004 Jerusalem, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Avni, Yoav,Avni, Gideon,Porat, Naomi. A review of the rise and fall of ancient desert runoff agriculture in the Negev Highlands - A model for the southern Levant deserts[J],2019,163:127-137.
APA	Avni, Yoav,Avni, Gideon,&Porat, Naomi.(2019).A review of the rise and fall of ancient desert runoff agriculture in the Negev Highlands - A model for the southern Levant deserts.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,163,127-137.
MLA	Avni, Yoav,et al."A review of the rise and fall of ancient desert runoff agriculture in the Negev Highlands - A model for the southern Levant deserts".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 163(2019):127-137.