Agriculture in Arid Environments: Archaeological Perspectives Perspectives<\/p>\n
s011<\/a><\/p>\n Graeme Barker (University of Leicester, UK) and David Gilbertson (University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK)<\/p>\n Despite the frequency of speculation by archaeologists, historians and geographers about the long-term role of people in desertification, there have been remarkably few modern scientific studies of the problem. Many areas of the world that are now arid or semi-arid have remains of ancient farming systems. How did ancient farmers and herders exploit such environments and what impact did they have on them? Archaeology, particularly inter-disciplinary landscape archaeology combining the techniques of archaeology and geography, has the potential to address such questions. The seminar will bring together specialists working in different parts of the world, investigating a wide variety of past solutions to farming deserts. By understanding the variability in past farming strategies, their successes and failures, and their short- and long-term environmental impacts, can archaeology contribute to modern debates about desertification and sustainability?<\/p>\n papers: Agriculture in Arid Environments: Archaeological Perspectives Perspectives s011 Graeme Barker (University of Leicester, UK) and David Gilbertson (University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK) Despite the frequency of speculation by archaeologists, historians and geographers about the long-term role of people in desertification, there have been remarkably few modern scientific studies of the problem. Many areas of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nBarker Coping with desertification: 5000 years of farming and mining in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan S011brk1<\/a>
\nBarker Gilbertson Agriculture in arid environments: archaeology and desertification
\nD’andrea Ethnobotanical investigations of subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia
\nGilbertson Territoriality, situation and environment: floodwater farming in the ancient Libyan desert
\nKajale Archaeobotanical approaches to subsistence agriculture in South Asia and Africa: a comparative perspective
\nKinehan The archaeology of pastoral impact in African savannah environments
\nMinnis Prehistoric anthropogenic ecology of the Mexican Northwest\/American Southwest s011mnn1<\/a>
\nNewson Successes and failures in farming the Syrian Black Desert
\nRosen The decline of desert argriculture: a view from the classical period Negev s011rsn1<\/a>
\nSoper African agricultural systems and the terraced landscape of Nyanga, Zimbabwe s011spr1<\/a>
\nSutton Engaruka: farming an Oasis in Maasailand 300-500 years ago
\nWidgren Islands of agricultural intensification in East Africa: the social, ecological and historical contexts s011wdg1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"