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The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia

Integrating Science, History, and Archaeology

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ID3593169
AuthorsJ Haldon (0000-0003-1210-0829, Princeton University), Neil Roberts (0000-0001-5538-8653, Oral Roberts University), Adam Izdebski (0000-0002-3456-5478, Jagiellonian University), Dominik Fleitmann (0000-0001-5977-8835, Department of Archaeology), Michael Mccormick (0000-0001-7964-9387, European Union), Marica Cassis (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Owen Doonan (0000-0002-6552-1582, California State University, Northridge), Warren Eastwood, Warren J Eastwood (0000-0002-6167-3829, Department of Archaeology), Hugh Elton (0000-0003-4933-3343, Dean College), Ladstätter (0000-0002-0131-5640, Institute of Archaeology), Sabine Ladstätter, W Manning (0000-0002-6917-0927, Cornell University), Sturt Manning, James Newhard (0000-0002-0929-9219, College of Charleston), Kathleen Nicoll (0000-0002-6971-9713, Landscape Institute), Ioannes Telelis, Ioannis Telelis (0000-0002-6309-2227, Academy of Athens), E Xoplaki (0000-0002-2745-2467, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue2
Pages113-161
Publication date2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/jinh_a_00682
OpenAlexW1970616859
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited29

The integration of high-resolution archaeological, textual, and environmental data with longer-term, low-resolution data affords greater precision in identifying some of the causal relationships underlying societal change. Regional and microregional case studies about the Byzantine world-in particular, Anatolia, which for several centuries was the heart of that world-reveal many of the difficulties that researchers face when attempting to assess the influence of environmental factors on human society. The Anatolian case challenges a number of assumptions about the impact of climatic factors on socio-political organization and medium-term historical evolution, highlighting the importance of further collaboration between historians, archaeologists, and climate scientists

Archaeology · Byzantine architecture · Climate change · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Term (time) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Tree-ring climate responses

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