ood, Agricultural, and Environmental Risk Management during the Holocene in Mesopotamia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Using new microbotanical phytolith evidence, this article discusses what strategies were implemented to manage factors affecting agricultural strategies and staple food during the Late Holocene in a dry climatic condition in the Late Holocene at the Neo-Assyrian large site of Peshdar Plain located in Kurdistan, Iraq, Northern Mesopotamia. Located in the northern Fertile Crescent, the Neo-Assyrian in land provincials experienced constant climatic changes driving people to develop skills for the time of predictable and abrupt changes. These management skills in terms of agriculture and risk management are still poorly understood and the phytolith studies are rich data to fill this gap. The phytolith evidence suggest that diversification of land, environments, and plants, use of storage, rainfed and local irrigation were some of the most important employed methods to manage agricultural risks.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37352.0