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The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history /
The product of a collaboration between scientists, historians and archaeologists, this book breaks new ground in the study of the long-term interaction between environmental factors, including climate, and human beings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Columbia studies in the classical tradition ;
v. 39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What kind of environmental history for antiquity? / W.V. Harris
- Energy consumption and the energy crisis in the Roman world / Paolo Malanima
- Fuelling ancient Mediterranean cities : a framework for charcoal research / Robyn Veal
- What climate science, Ausonius, Nile floods, rye farming, and thatched roofs tell us about the environmental history of the Roman empire / Michael McCormick
- Megadroughts, ENSO, and the invasion of late-Roman Europe by the Huns and Avars / Edward R. Cook
- The Roman world and climate : context, relevance of climate change, and some issues / Sturt Manning
- Defining and detecting deforestation in the ancient Mediterranean, 800BC to 600CE / W.V. Harris
- Problems of relating environmental history and human settlement in the classical and late-classical periods : the example of southern Jordan / Paula Kouki
- Human-environment interactions in the southern Tyrrhenian coastal area : hypotheses from Neapolis and Elea-Velia / Elda Russo Ermolli, Paolo Romano, and Maria Rosaria Ruello
- Large-scale water management projects in Roman central-southern Italy / Duncan Keenan-Jones
- The Mediterranean environment in ancient history : perspectives and prospects / Andrew Wilson.