A Medieval Climate Anomaly
The Qarakhanid Adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3164936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Misa (0000-0001-8304-0507, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-65 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_01972 |
| OpenAlex | W4381416234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A synthesis of paleoclimatic, archaeological, and literary evidence from Central Asia (Transoxiana and the Tarim Basin) during the tenth through twelfth centuries suggests that the Qarakhanid state adapted its hybrid economy to a unique climate regime characterized by drought created by the Medieval Climate Anomaly. To adapt, the Qarakhanids expanded the agricultural and pastoral sections of their economy into foothill and highland ecologies and used diplomacy to support a transregional trade network that helped to stimulate drought-stressed oasis economies on both sides of the Tian Shan. New methodological conclusions relevant for the study of interdisciplinary environmental history in general and for the historiography of premodern mobile pastoralist states in particular provide frameworks for future study
Adaptation (eye · Agriculture · Anomaly (physics · Archaeology · Climate change · Diplomacy · Economics · Economy · Geography · Historiography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political science · State (computer science · Structural basin · Ecology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Forestry · Geology · History · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Tree-ring climate responses
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |