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Mediterranean Antiquity

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Mediterranean antiquity has been an important site of twenty-first-century climate history. Scholars, including historians and archaeologists, have increasingly drawn on data from the archives of nature to supplement the limited written records of the region. Both periods of climate stability and periods of climate adversity could plausibly have influenced human history in the Mediterranean. However, both the climatic and historical evidence remains limited. Overly expansive interpretations of climate’s influence on Mediterranean antiquity overlook the role of societal adaptation and resilience, and risk falling into climate determinism.

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    Broodbank, 2013, 601.

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    Finné et al., 2011, 3154.

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    Broodbank, 2013, 459, 470–1; Cline, 2014, 142–7; Kaniewski et al., 2015.

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    Manning, 2013, 112–14, 132.

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    Issar, 2003, 24.

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    McCormick et al., 2012; McCormick, 2013; Manning, 2013.

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    Nieto-Moreno et al., 2011, 1404–5.

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    McCormick, 2013, 78.

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    Manning, 2013, 158, 163.

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    Manning, 2013, 160, 163.

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    Manning, 2013, 163–5.

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    Büntgen et al., 2011, 580.

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    Gunn, 2000.

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    Manning, 2013, 106, n. 3.

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    Büntgen et al., 2011, 580; Cook, 2013.

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    Cheyette, 2008.

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    Meier, 2003.

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    Horden and Purcell, 2000.

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  1. Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK

    Peregrine Horden

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  1. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  2. Institute of History, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change, Bern, Switzerland

    Christian Pfister

  3. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Franz Mauelshagen

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Horden, P. (2018). Mediterranean Antiquity. In: White, S., Pfister, C., Mauelshagen, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5_16

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