AD536 – Back to Nature
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10957252 |
|---|---|
| Autores | John Moreland (0000-0002-0167-2541, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 89 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 91-111 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Acta Archaeologica (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0065-101X • E-ISSN: 1600-0390 |
| Editorial | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1600-0390.2018.12194.x |
| OpenAlex | W2910471401 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 13 |
| Referencias citadas | 69 |
A spate of archaeological, historical and scientific publications have recently argued that the dust veil from a volcanic eruption (or series of eruptions) caused climatic change, which ‘forced’ significant historical transformations in the middle of the sixth century AD. In this paper, I situate this phenomenon within a more general return to environmental determinism in archaeological explanation, a return which itself needs to be understood in the context both of contemporary fears about the devastation to be unleashed by the climatic change we have made, and of the rise of precise measurement in environmental and archaeological science. I do not doubt the reality of the climatic change reconstructed for AD536/546 but, given the coarseness of the dating of the historical transformations, I do question the causal connections drawn between the former and the latter. I suggest that for many archaeologists, the AD536 event (and similar phenomena) functions much as written texts once did – as both the framework for analysis and as the explanation of historical process
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Determinism · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Phenomenon · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Philosophy · Tree-ring climate responses
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The Fimbulwinter myth in the context of Nordic tree-ring climate proxy data
Becoming Europe
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Fates of Romes
Hinterland Origins
What Happened at Augland? A Social Chronology for the Demise of a Roman Iron Age Ceramic Workshop in South Norway
Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain
Pyrotechnology in Turbulent Times
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Dust clouds, climate change and coins
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The Parting of the Sea
Early Medieval Settlements
The Fate of Rome
The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis
Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years
The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD
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Reviving the Grand Narrative
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Little Ice Age catastrophic storms and the destruction of a Shetland Island community
The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages
The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the Beginning of the Middle Ages
Climate and causation in the Swedish Iron Age
Roman Britain and the English Settlements
Bronze Age myths? Volcanic activity and human response in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic regions
The Urban Revolution
Volcanism, Ecology and Culture
Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire
The First Towns
Climate and Documentary Sources
The Anglo-Saxon Achievement
Twilight of the gods? The 'dust veil event' of AD 536 in critical perspective
Environmental Determinism in Near Eastern Prehistory
| Obras citantes distintas | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 2,17 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 13 |