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Archaeology and Desertification - The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan (Hardcover)
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Archaeology and Desertification - The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan (Hardcover)
Series: Levant Supplementary Series, 6
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The Wadi Faynan is a harshly beautiful and desertic landscape in
southern Jordan, situated between the hyper-arid deserts of the
Wadi 'Arabah and the rugged and wetter Mountains of Edom.
Archaeology and Desertification presents the results of the Wadi
Faynan Landscape Survey, an inter-disciplinary study of landscape
change undertaken in the Wadi Faynan by a team of archaeologists
and geographers with the goal of contributing to present-day
desertification debates by providing a long-term perspective on the
relationship between environmental change and human history. The
Wadi Faynan was the focus for some of the earliest farming in the
Near East, and the earliest metallurgy, and in Roman times was a
centre for copper and lead mining. The project reveals how past
communities of farmers, shepherds, and miners managed their
challenging environment, the solutions they developed, their
successes and failures, and their short- and long-term
environmental impacts. The richness of the palaeoclimatic,
archaeological and palaeoecological data reveals an
environmental/cultural history of complex pathways, synergies, and
feedbacks operating at many different geographical scales, rates,
and intensities. The project's findings on the complexity of past
and present people: environment relations in the Wadi Faynan affirm
the power of inter-disciplinary landscape archaeology to contribute
significantly to the desertification debate. With global warming
likely to threaten the lives of millions of people in the semi-arid
and arid lands that comprise over a third of the planet through the
course of this century, with potentially dire consequences for
adjacent populations in better-watered regions, understanding the
complexity of past responses to aridification has never been more
urgent.
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