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Challenging climate change : competition and cooperation among pastoralists and agriculturalists in northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC) / Arne Wossink
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Wossink, Arne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental archaeology--Iraq.
- Environmental archaeology.
- Agriculture--Iraq--History--To 1500.
- Agriculture.
- Climatic changes--Iraq--History--To 1500.
- Climatic changes.
- Iraq--Environmental conditions--History--To 1500.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Historical geography.
- Ecology.
- Historical geography.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : SIdestone Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature. It is argued that developments in these relations will fall within a continuum between competition on one end and cooperation on the other. The adoption of a particular strategy depends on whether that strategy is advantageous to a community in terms of the maintenance of its well-being when faced with adverse climate change. This model will be applied to northern Mesopotamia between 3000 and 1600 bc. Local palaeoclimate proxy records demonstrate that aridity increased significantly during this period. Within this geographical, chronological, and climatic framework, this study looks at changes in settlement patterns as an indication of competition among sedentary agriculturalist communities, and the development of the Amorite ethnic identity as reflecting cooperation among sedentary and more mobile pastoralist communities"-- Sidestone Press
- Contents:
- Northern Mesopotamia from 3000 to 1600 BC
- Theorizing social responses to environmental change
- Methods for the reconstruction of regional settlement trends
- Regional settlement trends
- The development of pastoralism
- The development of social networks
- Social responses to environmental change
- Notes:
- Ph.D. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden 2009
- Includes bibliographical references
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Sidestone Press, viewed March 2, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wossink, Arne. Challenging climate change : Competition and cooperation among pastoralists and agriculturalists in northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC).
- ISBN:
- 9789088900792
- 9088900795
- 9789088906817
- 9088906815
- OCLC:
- 967107802
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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