Kirchner, Helena;
García-Contreras, Guillermo;
Fenwick, Corisande;
Pluskowski, Aleks;
(2023)
Re-thinking the ‘Green Revolution’ in the Mediterranean world.
Antiquity
pp. 1-11.
10.15184/aqy.2023.91.
(In press).
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Abstract
From the seventh century AD, successive Islamic polities were established around the Mediterranean. Historians have linked these caliphates with the so-called ‘Islamic Green Revolution’—the introduction of new crops and agricultural practices that transformed the economies of regions under Muslim rule. Increasingly, archaeological studies have problematised this largely text-based model of agrarian innovation, yet much of this research remains regionally and methodologically siloed. Focusing on the Western Mediterranean, the authors offer a theoretically informed, integrated environmental archaeology approach through which to contextualise the ecological impact of the Arab-Berber conquests. Its future application will allow a fuller evaluation of the scale, range and significance of agricultural innovations during the ‘medieval millennium’.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Re-thinking the ‘Green Revolution’ in the Mediterranean world |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2023.91 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.91 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Islamic Mediterranean, agriculture, crops, climate change, resilience, agrarian relations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172886 |
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