Re-thinking the ‘green revolution’ in the Mediterranean world

Kirchner, H., García-Contreras, G., Fenwick, C. and Pluskowski, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4494-7664 (2023) Re-thinking the ‘green revolution’ in the Mediterranean world. Antiquity, 97 (394). pp. 964-974. ISSN 1745-1744 doi: 10.15184/aqy.2023.91

Abstract/Summary

From the seventh century AD, successive Islamic polities were established around the Mediterranean. Historians have linked these caliphates with the so-called ‘Islamic Green Revolution’—the introduction of new crops and agricultural practices that transformed the economies of regions under Muslim rule. Increasingly, archaeological studies have problematised this largely text-based model of agrarian innovation, yet much of this research remains regionally and methodologically siloed. Focusing on the Western Mediterranean, the authors offer a theoretically informed, integrated environmental archaeology approach through which to contextualise the ecological impact of the Arab-Berber conquests. Its future application will allow a fuller evaluation of the scale, range and significance of agricultural innovations during the ‘medieval millennium’.

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Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Archaeology
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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