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oapen-20.500.12657-471642021-03-11T02:02:30Z Challenging climate change Wossink, Arne Near Eastern archaeology Mesopotamia palaeoclimate climatic fluctuations climate change pastoralist communities sedentary communities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology::HDD Archaeology by period / region::HDDC Middle & Near Eastern archaeology 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. 2021-03-10T15:59:36Z 2021-03-10T15:59:36Z 2009 book ONIX_20210310_9789088900310_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47164 eng application/pdf n/a 9789088900310.pdf https://www.sidestone.com/books/challenging-climate-change Sidestone Press Sidestone Press Dissertations 471fd6d5-f295-4fd0-a13a-e60a6420f603 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Sidestone Press Dissertations 183 Leiden Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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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.
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