Theme:
7. Archaeology of Sustainability through World Crises, Climate Change and War
Session format:
Round table (without formal abstracts, only list of confirmed discussants / session co-organisers to be provided)
Title:
Agrarian Change in the Medieval Mediterranean: Towards Holistic Archaeologies of Environmental Change
Content:
As the Mediterranean rapidly enters a new era of changing climate, holistic archaeologies can offer vital perspectives on how societies responded to environmental challenges through innovation and adaptation during the formative ‘long Middle Ages’. This aim of this roundtable is to discuss how we can best approach the varied and fragmented data to better understand the relationship between societal and environmental change in the medieval Mediterranean. The recently begun ERC synergy project “Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries)” (MEDGREENREV) provides a framework for exploring the opportunities and challenges of integrating different types of archaeological, historical and environmental data, as well as scales of analysis, relevant theoretical frameworks and comparative approaches.
During this roundtable, we would like to explore:
1) Key research questions for archaeologies of environmental change
2) The challenges of integrating different types of data
3) The challenges of dating and robust chronologies
4) Long-term versus short-term perspectives on environmental change
5) The role of climate
6) Accommodating different theoretical frameworks
7) Comparative approaches across the Mediterranean world
8) Lessons for the future
We invite everyone interested in the complex relationship between societal and environmental transformation in the medieval Mediterranean to contribute to this discussion.
Keywords:
Environmental archaeology, Mediterranean, Medieval, Agrarian, Climate, Landscape
Session associated with MERC:
yes
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Aleks Pluskowski (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Helena Kirchner (Spain) 2
Guillermo García-Contreras (Spain) 3
Michelle Alexander (United Kingdom) 4
Affiliations:
1. University of Reading
2. Autonomous University of Barcelona
3. University of Granada
4. University of York
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