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DOI	10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.004
	Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean
	Fall, Patricia L.; Falconer, Steven E.; Klinge, JoAnna
通讯作者	Fall, PL
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
ISSN	2352-409X
出版年	2015
卷号	4 页码:182-191
英文摘要	We compare carbonized seeds and charcoal excavated from four Bronze Age settlements in the eastern Mediterranean to infer distinctions in fuel use and the exploitation of woody vegetation amid developing anthropogenic landscapes. Charcoal evidence generally implicates combustion of fuel wood, while burned seeds commonly result from dung fuel use. Varying fuel consumption profiles reflect the availability of woody vegetation and cultivation practices that reveal temporal and geographical dynamics on Bronze Age agrarian landscapes. In the farmlands of the northern Jordan Valley, villagers at Early Bronze Tell Abu en-Nia'j and subsequently at Middle Bronze Tell el-Hayyat relied heavily on dung for their fuel needs, supplemented by burning of orchard prunings and to a lesser extent wood from nearby riparian vegetation. In this agrarian setting, limited availability of forest resources engendered exploitation of the highest diversities of cultivated crops, weedy species and woody plants. The village of Zahrat adh-Dhra'1 (contemporaneous with Tell el-Hayyat) on the arid, sparsely populated Dead Sea Plain relied less on dung fuel, and similarly harvested wood from orchards, while also utilizing the desert trees Acacia and Tamarix. Fuel use at Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus suggests ready access to Pious and Quercus forests, and burning of Olea wood from nearby orchards, associated with little dung fuel use and the lowest taxonomic diversity of fuel sources among these four Bronze Age communities. The range of evidence for fuel use at these settlements reflects varying exploitation strategies based on plant resources and animal management in agrarian countrysides, as well as the larger influences of urbanized or non-urbanized society during the development of Bronze Age anthropogenic landscapes. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Bronze age Charcoal Cyprus Fuel use Jordan Seeds Pyrotechnology Wood
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Bronze
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000438444100018
WOS关键词	WOODLAND VEGETATION ; EXPLOITATION ; PLANTS ; HISTORY ; REMAINS ; ECONOMY ; PEOPLE ; DUNG ; FOOD
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
来源机构	Arizona State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331429
作者单位	[Fall, Patricia L.] Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Geog & Earth Sci, Charlotte, NC 28223 USA; [Falconer, Steven E.] Univ North Carolina Charlotte, Dept Anthropol, Charlotte, NC 28223 USA; [Klinge, JoAnna] Arizona State Univ, Sch Geog Sci & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fall, Patricia L.,Falconer, Steven E.,Klinge, JoAnna. Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean[J]. Arizona State University,2015,4:182-191.
APA	Fall, Patricia L.,Falconer, Steven E.,&Klinge, JoAnna.(2015).Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS,4,182-191.
MLA	Fall, Patricia L.,et al."Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS 4(2015):182-191.