Climate, Environment and Agriculture in Assyria

in the 2nd Half of the 2nd Millennium BCE

von

Reculeau, Hervé

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

290 Seiten

Englisch

Harrassowitz Verlagerschienen am01.12.2011

This book is the result of a two-year post-doctoral research conducted at the Cluster of Excellence TOPOI (Berlin) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kühne. It focuses on potential environmental changes and/or climatic fluctuations, and their impact on the agrarian economy of Assyria during the 13th to 10th centuries BCE. Being intersected in two parts the first three chapters present a state-of-the-art compendium of palaeo-ecosystems and climatic as well as archaeological conditions of Upper Mesopotamia during the Late Holocene, i.e. the 2nd Millennium BCE, while the last four chapters analyze the cuneiform evidence of the 13th century BCE of cereal yields in relation to dry-farming and/or irrigation, field locations, productivity, and metrology. It is suggested that the overall poor yields documented at Middle Assyrian cities like Assur and Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta or provincial towns like Dur-Katlimmu, Harbe, Tall Sabi Abyad or Sibanniba cannot be interpreted in terms of an opposition between dry-farming vs. irrigation agriculture, but rather reflect the poor efficiency of Assyrian agriculture during an arid episode which prevailed in Upper Mesopotamia in the whole Late Bronze Age.mehr

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KlappentextThis book is the result of a two-year post-doctoral research conducted at the Cluster of Excellence TOPOI (Berlin) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kühne. It focuses on potential environmental changes and/or climatic fluctuations, and their impact on the agrarian economy of Assyria during the 13th to 10th centuries BCE. Being intersected in two parts the first three chapters present a state-of-the-art compendium of palaeo-ecosystems and climatic as well as archaeological conditions of Upper Mesopotamia during the Late Holocene, i.e. the 2nd Millennium BCE, while the last four chapters analyze the cuneiform evidence of the 13th century BCE of cereal yields in relation to dry-farming and/or irrigation, field locations, productivity, and metrology. It is suggested that the overall poor yields documented at Middle Assyrian cities like Assur and Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta or provincial towns like Dur-Katlimmu, Harbe, Tall Sabi Abyad or Sibanniba cannot be interpreted in terms of an opposition between dry-farming vs. irrigation agriculture, but rather reflect the poor efficiency of Assyrian agriculture during an arid episode which prevailed in Upper Mesopotamia in the whole Late Bronze Age.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-447-06630-3

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Harrassowitz Verlag

ErscheinungslandDeutschland

Erscheinungsjahr2011

Erscheinungsdatum01.12.2011

ReiheStudia Chaburensia

Reihen-Nr.2

Seiten290 Seiten