Hostettler, Marco (5 July 2022). Farmers of the Bronze Age – Exploring land use dynamics and agricultural practices using legacy data and land-use modelling (Unpublished). In: Prehistoric lakeshore settlements in South-East Europe: archaeological, palaeoecological and bioarchaeological investigations within the EXPLO project. Mid-term Conference. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 5-6 July 2022.
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The site of Kastanas, a small tell located at the Axios river near the shore of the ancient thermaic gulf, is used as a case study to assess land use dynamics and agricultural practice through analysis of botanical legacy data and land-use modelling. With a stratigraphy spanning from the Early Bronze to the Iron Age and hundreds of botanical samples from different contexts (first published in 1983), it offers a unique possibility to reconstruct a sequence of probable agricultural practices. This allows insights into the subsistence economy of this specific microregion in the Bronze and Iron Ages, as the tell is one of a group of similar sites located closely to each other. This case study is part of a supra-regional analysis to diachronically evaluate past land-use activities and to connect them to environmental dynamics. The results will contribute to understand the resilience and vulnerabilities of the respective agrarian societies of the Bronze Age in Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Pre- and Early History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Hostettler, Marco |
Subjects: |
900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Marco Hostettler |
Date Deposited: |
12 Aug 2022 11:44 |
Last Modified: |
07 Oct 2023 12:54 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/164551 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/164551 |
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