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Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the
past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to
identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for
economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the
frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines,
however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There
is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the
economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared
cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic
ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material
record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer
together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to
evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic
history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by
neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity
economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward.
Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the
past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to
identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for
economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the
frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines,
however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There
is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the
economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared
cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic
ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material
record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer
together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to
evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic
history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by
neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity
economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward.
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 millennium BCE up to the end of the
first millennium CE. This book contributes to the
multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and
society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of
the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the
Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in
global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to
stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization,
this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern
and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of
statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The
book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex
interactions between the natural environment and the
socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure
of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of
scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically
Rome and Late Antiquity.
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 millennium BCE up to the end of the
first millennium CE. This book contributes to the
multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and
society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of
the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the
Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in
global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to
stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization,
this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern
and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of
statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The
book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex
interactions between the natural environment and the
socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure
of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of
scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically
Rome and Late Antiquity.
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