Societal stability and environmental change: Examining the archaeology‐soil erosion paradox

This paper critically examines the soil exhaustion and societal collapse hypothesis both theoretically and empirically. The persistence of civilizations, especially in the Mediterranean, despite intensive and presumably erosive arable farming creates what is described here as the archaeology soil er...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Geoarchaeology 2017-01, Vol.32 (1), p.23-35
Hauptverfasser:	Brown, Antony G., Walsh, Kevin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	agricultural terraces Agriculture mediterranean societal collapse Soil erosion sustainable resources
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