H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

HumanLand · Human Landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval Southern Greater Syria.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-01-01 → 2024-01-14
Финансиране от ЕС: 174 806 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Земеделските методи в средновековна Южна Голяма Сирия се анализират чрез растителни остатъци и текстове, за да се види как империите са интензифицирали производството. Това помага да се разбере връзката между политическите структури, екологията и оцеляването на селяните в полупустини.

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Резултати накратко

Human Landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval Southern Greater Syria.

No conclusions for the action reached yet due to the Early Termination of the Grant Agreement. The overall objective of project “Human Landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval Southern Greater Syria” (HumanLand) was to offer a longue durée perspective on issues of intensified agricultural and pastoral methods practiced in medieval Eastern Mediterranean region. Particularly, this project aimed to identify whether medieval empires intensified agro-pastoral pursuits despite negative environmental impacts on the semi-arid regions of Southern Greater Syria and whether traditional agro-pastoral systems worked towards peasant and environmental resilience. Specifically, HumanLand has three research objectives (ROs): •RO1: To identify changes in agricultural intensification in relation to climatic, political and economic shifts that took place in the late 14th and much of the 15th centuries. •RO2: To investigate the use of sustainable strategies and impact of imperial regimes on medieval communities. •RO3: To investigate the impact of political structures on the ecology in semi-arid regions. To pursue this, HumanLand uses botanical micro-remains (phytolith, starches and spherulites) and stable isotope data from crop remains derived from on- and off- site contexts of medieval Jordan and Israel that, combined, provide evidence for intensified agriculture. This evidence will be evaluated with information on land-use in medieval texts. Using a geodatabase in a GIS environment, the quantitative and qualitative data on medieval land-use will be evaluated against the backdrop of the settlement history of each site up until the 1870s and the history of local and regional politics and economy. This project approach to environmental history is important for the society, as it initiates awareness to some of these issues and letting us all think of who we are as species and how we dominate and alter our environments from the medieval Period through the current day.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Medieval Islamic Archaeology in Southern Greater Syria is relevant to the sustainable agricultural intensification discourse due the implementation of state intensive land use for profit that affected the lives of peasants and the ecology of semi-arid regions. Medieval Islamic agricultural intensification practices included irrigation, fertilizers, overgrazing, deforestation and cash cropping, which increase agricultural yields. The project “Human Landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval Southern Greater Syria” (HumanLand), offers a deep-time perspective on these issues. According to surveys and historic resources, the later medieval Islamic eras were marked by the collapse of the Mamluk state, the decline of major agricultural centers, and a shift to a seasonal basis occupation partly due to climatic stressors of the end of the 14th and 15th centuries, as well as the lack of state resources and support. HumanLand will use new environmental and textual data for medieval land-use to investigate these three objectives: 1) To identify changes in agricultural intensification in relation to climatic, political and economic shifts that took place in the late 14th and much of the 15th centuries, 2) To investigate the use of sustainable strategies and impact of imperial regimes on medieval communities, and 3) To investigate the impact of political structures on the ecology in semi-arid regions. The project will use botanical micro remains (phytolith, starches and spherulites) and stable isotope data from crop remains to understand agricultural practices of six medieval communities of Jordan and Israel. This evidence will be evaluated with information on land-use in medieval texts. These methods combined, provide evidence for intensified agriculture making this research one of the few studies done, which combine the different approaches proposed to approach the big picture of medieval Islamic agricultural history.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · BonnКоординаторГермания