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DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2019.02.012
	Is the past key to the present ? Observations of cultural continuity and resilience reconstructed from geoarchaeological records
	Nicoll, Kathleen 1; Zerboni, Andrea 2
通讯作者	Nicoll, Kathleen
来源期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
EISSN	1873-4553
出版年	2020
卷号	545 页码:119-127
英文摘要	? Collapse ? is an engaging buzzword that captivates public interest; as such, the notion of demise remains a dominant theme in studies of ancient civilizations. Our textbooks teach that the Roman Empire and Han dynasty (to name a few oft -cited examples) crumbled, and some, like the Maya and the Harappan suddenly - if not mysteriously - disappeared. In this manner, studying archaeology is promoted as a basis of prognostication for our modern Anthropocene, the timeframe when human agency became ascendant and affected global change. Well established models of collapse suggested that cultural downfall was predicated by hydroclimate-driven ecological and environmental crises that were both unavoidable and insurmountable, and resulted in finite end- points like abandonments and disappearances. Such deterministic or apocalyptic notions of societal collapses are appealing and tidy, but incomplete narratives. Emerging research has moved beyond simplistic and linear in- terpretations of antiquity, invoking anthropological paradigms of continuity, social resilience and transforma- tion, as well as new methodological approaches for resolving how cultures may have assimilated, or coped by strategic adaptation, migration, socio-political reorganization or technological innovation. Interpretations of geoarchaeological records in context of environmental reconstructions underscore themes raised by post-pro- cessual anthropologists, such as the need to view cultural change as a continuum through environmental changes. With these themes in mind, we link selected examples of modern studies of many regions with a special focus on North African drylands with archaeological records that provide contexts for reconstructing how cul- tures coped. Formal resilience theory, built on concepts that were originally borrowed from ecology, offers more realistic frameworks for reconstructions of the past that enable us to ask nuanced questions about sustainability strategies during political transitions, socio-political crisis events like warfare and disease, crop collapse, soil loss, extreme weather (including hurricanes, floods, droughts), and resource availability. Resilience and per- sistence of cultures is a given, and is inherent in the progressive study of ancient cultures and modern societies living in marginal environments, and facing hydroclimate change, overpopulation, and scarcity of resources. As such, geoarchaeological studies are vital for unpacking the Anthropocene.
英文关键词	Geoarchaeology Environmental crisis Societal collapse Cultural continuity Resilience
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; Italy
开放获取类型	Bronze
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000542927400012
WOS关键词	HOLOCENE CLIMATE-CHANGE ; TRANSFORMATIONAL ADAPTATION ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; HYDROCLIMATIC CHANGE ; MIDDLE HOLOCENE ; WESTERN DESERT ; RIVER DYNAMICS ; NORTH-AFRICA ; VULNERABILITY ; RESPONSES
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/319741
作者单位	1.Dept Geog, Carolyn & Kem Gardner Commons Bldg, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA; 2.Univ Milan, Dipartimento Sci Terra A Desio, Via L Mangiagalli 34, I-20133 Milan, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nicoll, Kathleen,Zerboni, Andrea. Is the past key to the present ? Observations of cultural continuity and resilience reconstructed from geoarchaeological records[J],2020,545:119-127.
APA	Nicoll, Kathleen,&Zerboni, Andrea.(2020).Is the past key to the present ? Observations of cultural continuity and resilience reconstructed from geoarchaeological records.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,545,119-127.
MLA	Nicoll, Kathleen,et al."Is the past key to the present ? Observations of cultural continuity and resilience reconstructed from geoarchaeological records".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 545(2020):119-127.