TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional power and local ecologies
T2 - Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent
AU - Lawrence, D.
AU - Philip, G.
AU - Wilkinson, K.
AU - Buylaert, Jan-Pieter
AU - Murray, A. S.
AU - Thompson, W.
AU - Wilkinson, T. J.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Archaeological data tend to be gathered at the local level: human agency also operates at this scale. By combining data from multiple surveys conducted within a larger area, it is possible to use local datasets to obtain a perspective on regional trends in settlement, population, and human activity. Here we employ data derived from nine archaeological surveys in the northern and western regions of the Fertile Crescent (west and north Syria, SE Turkey, and northern Iraq) to show how local trends aggregate to create a general proxy record of settlement and regional population. In addition, we use geoarchaeological data from a region extending from Homs in the west to northern Iraq in the east to outline historical trends in alluvial fill development. Both settlement and alluviation trends are then related to palaeoclimate proxy data from Soreq Cave and Lake Van. Settlement, geoarchaeological signatures and climate are then examined side by side in order to assess long-term human interactions. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Archaeological data tend to be gathered at the local level: human agency also operates at this scale. By combining data from multiple surveys conducted within a larger area, it is possible to use local datasets to obtain a perspective on regional trends in settlement, population, and human activity. Here we employ data derived from nine archaeological surveys in the northern and western regions of the Fertile Crescent (west and north Syria, SE Turkey, and northern Iraq) to show how local trends aggregate to create a general proxy record of settlement and regional population. In addition, we use geoarchaeological data from a region extending from Homs in the west to northern Iraq in the east to outline historical trends in alluvial fill development. Both settlement and alluviation trends are then related to palaeoclimate proxy data from Soreq Cave and Lake Van. Settlement, geoarchaeological signatures and climate are then examined side by side in order to assess long-term human interactions. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Fertile crescent
KW - Landscape archaeology
KW - Local ecology
KW - Scale
KW - Settlement archaeology
U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.026
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.026
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1040-6182
VL - 437
SP - 60
EP - 81
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
IS - B
ER -