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dc.contributor.authorWossink, Arne
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-10T15:59:36Z
dc.date.available2021-03-10T15:59:36Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifierONIX_20210310_9789088900310_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47164
dc.description.abstractThroughout 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / regionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle Easten_US
dc.subject.otherNear Eastern archaeology
dc.subject.otherMesopotamia
dc.subject.otherpalaeoclimate
dc.subject.otherclimatic fluctuations
dc.subject.otherclimate change
dc.subject.otherpastoralist communities
dc.subject.othersedentary communities
dc.titleChallenging climate change
dc.title.alternativeCompetition and cooperation among pastoralists and agriculturalists in northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC)
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy471fd6d5-f295-4fd0-a13a-e60a6420f603
oapen.relation.isFundedByda087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025
oapen.collectionDutch Research Council (NWO)
oapen.imprintSidestone Press Dissertations
oapen.pages183
oapen.place.publicationLeiden


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