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DOI	10.1038/s41598-020-58360-5
	Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert
	Vaiglova, Petra; Hartman, Gideon; Marom, Nimrod; Ayalon, Avner; Bar-Matthews, Miryam; Zilberman, Tami; Yasur, Gal; Buckley, Michael; Bernstein, Rachel; Tepper, Yotam; Weissbrod, Lior; Erickson-Gini, Tali; Bar-Oz, Guy
通讯作者	Vaiglova, P
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	Understanding past human settlement of inhospitable regions is one of the most intriguing puzzles in archaeological research, with implications for more sustainable use of marginal regions today. During the Byzantine period in the 4(th) century CE, large settlements were established in the arid region of the Negev Desert, Israel, but it remains unclear why it did so, and why the settlements were abandoned three centuries later. Previous theories proposed that the Negev was a green desert in the early 1(st) millennium CE, and that the Byzantine Empire withdrew from this region due to a dramatic climatic downturn. In the absence of a local climate archive correlated to the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition, testing this theory has proven challenging. We use stable isotopic indicators of animal dietary and mobility patterns to assess the extent of the vegetative cover in the desert. By doing so, we aim to detect possible climatic fluctuations that may have led to the abandonment of the Byzantine settlements. The findings show that the Negev Desert was not greener during the time period under investigation than it is today and that the composition of the animals' diets, as well as their grazing mobility patterns, remained unchanged through the Byzantine/Early Islamic transition. Favoring a non-climatic explanation, we propose instead that the abandonment of the Negev Byzantine settlements was motivated by restructuring of the Empire's territorial priorities.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000560423900003
WOS关键词	CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION ; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; SOREQ CAVE ; NITROGEN ; OXYGEN ; HIGHLANDS ; HOLOCENE ; SHIVTA ; RATIOS
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325671
作者单位	[Vaiglova, Petra] Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, 1 Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130 USA; [Vaiglova, Petra; Marom, Nimrod; Weissbrod, Lior; Bar-Oz, Guy] Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, 199 Aba Hushi Ave, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel; [Vaiglova, Petra; Hartman, Gideon] Univ Connecticut, Dept Anthropol, 354 Mansfield Rd, Storrs, CT 06269 USA; [Ayalon, Avner; Bar-Matthews, Miryam; Zilberman, Tami; Yasur, Gal] Geol Survey Israel, Dept Geochem, 32 Yeshaayahu,Leibowits Str, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel; [Buckley, Michael] Univ Manchester, Manchester Inst Biotechnol, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England; [Bernstein, Rachel] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Beer Sheva, Israel; [Tepper, Yotam; Erickson-Gini, Tali] Israeli Antiqu Author, Archaeol Div, IL-61012 Tel Aviv, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vaiglova, Petra,Hartman, Gideon,Marom, Nimrod,et al. Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,2020,10(1).
APA	Vaiglova, Petra.,Hartman, Gideon.,Marom, Nimrod.,Ayalon, Avner.,Bar-Matthews, Miryam.,...&Bar-Oz, Guy.(2020).Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,10(1).
MLA	Vaiglova, Petra,et al."Climate stability and societal decline on the margins of the Byzantine empire in the Negev Desert".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10.1(2020).