Domesticated Landscapes of the Peloponnese

23/03/2023

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13/10/2022

There is still possible to submit paper abstracts to the Kiel Conference with the title “Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies" (https://www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de/). The call for papers is open until the end of the month, October 31, 2022.

There are many interesting sessions! We would like to especially draw your attention to session 35, which deals with the interplay of agricultural decision making and climatic variability in past societies with the title:
“Cultivation under uncertainty – the interplay of social and ecological factors in prehistoric and ancient agriculture”

The session is organized by Marco Hostettler, Albert Hafner and Erika.

If you’re interested in contributing, visit www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de for abstract submission.

Hope to see you in Kiel, in 2023!

The international, biennial Kiel Conference of the Johanna-Mestorf-Academy on past environments and societies will take place from 13th–17th March 2023.

15/11/2021

In 2019 we participated in the international conference "Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East" held in Brussels. The proceedings of the conference have now been published in the Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies series. Two of the chapters have been co-authored by DoLP-members. The first deals with vulnerability to climate change in the Bronze Age Peloponnese while the second discusses land use dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BCE. The book can be found through the link.

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millenniu...

16/06/2021

Another interesting article is out, in which Flint Dibble together with Martin analyze changing foodways as adaptation to climate change across the LBA/EIA transition.

Recent interest in modern climate change has stimulated extensive scientific study into past societal responses to climate variability. However, exami…

09/06/2021

In a new article just published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, we sum up much of our work within DoLP. We show a very close correspondence between changes in land use area and climate in the Peloponnese across 2000 years. But it is important to remember that, ultimately, ancient societies created their own futures in the way that they were able to balance agricultural strategies relative to climate and climate change. It is a paper that highlights the benefits of long-term and comparative studies for identifying the interlinkage between land use and climate.

Open access, of course! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101319

We show that long-term and comparative studies are imperative if we are to identify the interlinkage between land use and climate and understand how v…

07/12/2020

Last week the latest issue of Antiquity was fully published. For the new issue Anton and Martin have written a research article on land use and climate variability in the Hellenistic and Roman period. In the study they highlight the link between land use contraction and a drier climate in the late first century BC and the first century AD, as seen from palaeoclimatological data derived from speleothems. The article is available open access.

Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese - Volume 94 Issue 378

25/11/2020

Anton’s research on pollen data, landscape change and trade - co-authored together with colleagues based in Germany, USA and Greece - is now available in print in the current issue of the Economic Journal.

Abstract. In this article we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Base

28/10/2020

🆕 : In Ancient Greece, rural settlements and agriculture moved under Roman rule. It was thought politics drove this shift, but new analysis reveals climate change also played a key role (🆓) https://buff.ly/2HobuNx

22/10/2020

Our latest research on climate variability and land use in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Peloponnese is now available for first view in the prestigious archaeology journal Antiquity!

Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

06/05/2020

Pollen can provide important information on vegetation changes and landscape development in the past. A problem with pollen data is however linked to the spatial extent of the signals recovered for individual taxa. In a recent study Anton has collaborated with colleagues based in Germany, Greece and the US in order to statistically synthesise multiple archives that provide a regional picture of landscape change and developments in agricultural land use. The authors use the results in order to discuss changes in the economy of mainland Greece in the historical periods, with a specific focus on the impact of trade on agricultural land use in the Archaic and Classical periods, highlighting the potential for pollen data in the study of ancient economic history. The study was recently accepted by the Economic journal (published by the Royal Economic Society).

Citing information can be found here:

https://academic.oup.com/ej/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ej/ueaa026/5766224?redirectedFrom=fulltext

An updated draft (not typeset) is available here:

http://people.brandeis.edu/~tslocz/Sloczynski_paper_Greece.pdf

http://people.brandeis.edu/~tslocz/Sloczynski_appendix_Greece.pdf

Abstract. In this paper we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based

26/09/2019

If you are in Gothenburg - take a chance to listen to Anton at the Göteborg Book Fair. Anton is presenting new findings from the excavations at the Poseidon sanctuary on the island of Poros. Once today, and again tomorrow Friday!

Anton Bonnier inleder vårt monterprogram med bravur. Om du missade dagens presentation av utgrävningarna på Kalaureia finns en andra chans imorgon, klockan 11:30 - precis efter Anna Blennows och Magnus Bremmers samtal om guidebokens historia, med start 11:00.

Swedish Institute at Athens

23/05/2019

Today we have presented two papers at the conference in Brussels, discussing the possible role of climate variability linked to socio-economic developments and land use in Peloponnese. Erika presented recent work on the Bronze Age Peloponnese while Anton discussed data from the first millennium BCE. There are interesting comparisons to be made between periods!