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DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104134
	Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel
	Tepper, Yotam 1,2; Porat, Naomi 3; Bar-Oz, Guy 1
通讯作者	Tepper, Yotam
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2020
卷号	177
英文摘要	Ancient agricultural systems in the Negev Desert preserves abundant evidence of dryland farming from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. These systems consist of dams, field plots, field towers, cisterns and thousands of human-made stone mounds. In the environment of Shivta, these systems also included built dovecotes to produce dung to fertilize vineyards and orchards. All of these elements established an intensive agronomic practice. Extensive survey and excavations in one completely preserved agricultural system in a small wadi in the hinterland of Shivta, followed by OSL dating of loess accumulations in the adjacent agricultural installations, in addition to dates from archaeological finds, revealed clear stratigraphic and chronological sequences. We found that the first human-made components were established in the Roman period (1st-2nd centuries CE) and the agricultural system flourished during the Byzantine period (5th-6th centuries CE) before it was abandoned in the post-Byzantine era. At its peak, all artificial components of the system would have had to operate together at an optimum level to make intensive agriculture possible. This agricultural system is a prime example of the enormous skill and knowledge of Shivta farmers in synergizing different agricultural installations to maintain agriculture in a desert environment.
英文关键词	Desert agronomy Landscape modification Negev desert Roman-Byzantine periods Sustainable agriculture
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Israel
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000525299500005
WOS关键词	RUNOFF AGRICULTURE ; HIGHLANDS ; ENVIRONMENT ; WATER ; DESERTIFICATION ; PLEISTOCENE ; TRANSITION ; CHRONOLOGY ; FARMERS ; STRATA
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/2XILL650/319265
作者单位	1.Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel; 2.Israel Antiqu Author, 12 Lavanda St, IL-6602919 Tel Aviv, Israel; 3.Geol Survey Israel, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tepper, Yotam,Porat, Naomi,Bar-Oz, Guy. Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel[J],2020,177.
APA	Tepper, Yotam,Porat, Naomi,&Bar-Oz, Guy.(2020).Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,177.
MLA	Tepper, Yotam,et al."Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 177(2020).