Subsistence economy and land use strategies in the Burdur province (SW Anatolia) from prehistory to the Byzantine period

Cupere, Bea De; Frémondeau, Delphine; Kaptijn, Eva; Marinova, Elena; Poblome, Jeroen; Vandam, Ralf; Neer, Wim Van

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.097

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“…6). Although the plains surrounding Lake Burdur had already been occupied early in the Neolithic (de Cupere et al, 2015), the major occupation phase of the mountain regions was later during the so-called Beyşehir Occupation Phase (BOP) roughly coinciding with the Iron Age, Hellenistic Period and Roman Imperial Period (i.e., approximately 750 BC -450 AD). Pollen records from various sites in the territory indeed reveal that human pressure was highest in the Roman Period (Bakker et al, 2012).…”

Section: Southwestern Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Variability in fluvial geomorphic response to anthropogenic disturbance

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Humans have greatly impacted the processes and intensities of erosion, sediment transport and storage since the introduction of agriculture. In many regions around the world, accelerated floodplain sedimentation can be related to increases in human pressure on the environment. However, the relation between the intensity of anthropogenic disturbance and the magnitude of change in fluvial sediment dynamics is not straightforward and often non-linear. Here, we review a number of case studies from contrasting environmental settings in the European loess belt, the Eastern Mediterranean mountain ranges and the eastern USA. Detailed field-based sediment archive studies and sediment budgets covering time periods ranging from 200 to over 5000 year, as well as the use of pollen and sediment provenance techniques, show that no overarching concept of changes in floodplain sedimentation following anthropogenic disturbance can be established. Slope-channel (dis)connectivity controls the existence of thresholds or tipping points that need to be crossed before significant changes in downstream sediment dynamics are recorded following human impact. This coupling can be related to characteristics of human pressure such as its duration, intensity and spatial patterns, but also to the geomorphic and tectonic setting. Furthermore, internal feedback mechanisms, such as those between erosion and soil thickness, further complicate the story. All these factors controlling the propagation of sediment from eroding hillslopes to river channels vary between regions. Hence, only unique patterns of fluvial geomorphic response can be identified. As a result, unravelling the human impact from current-day sediment archives and predicting the impact of future human disturbances on fluvial sediment dynamics remain a major challenge. This has important implications for interpreting contemporary sediment yields as well as downstream sediment records in large floodplains, deltas and the marine environment, in terms of changes in the drivers of environmental change.

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Section: Southwestern Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Variability in fluvial geomorphic response to anthropogenic disturbance

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“…Sagalassos, the important urban centre of Roman Psidia, has layers contemporaneous to Gordion (inhabited during the Early to Middle Imperial periods, c. 25 BCE -300 CE) and is the best described Roman site in Anatolia, save Gordion, with regard to environmental archaeological data, although botanical data have been presented only in summary form (De Cupere 2001;De Cupere et al 2017;Frémondeau et al 2017;Fuller et al 2012, 162). These data indicate that during Early to Middle Imperial periods, both agriculture and animal husbandry became more intensive (more wheat, more pork, intensive use of cattle as labour) in relation to the Classical Hellenistic period, based on evidence from the nearby site of Düzen Tepe.…”

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“…To show how the relative proportions of represented taxa differ in terms of NISP and bone weight in Roman Gordion, we compare the results to NISP and weight figures from the Hellenistic period Gordion, which immediately precedes the Roman occupation (Miller, Zeder, and Arter 2009). Comparing measures of taxonomic abundance with published data from roughly contemporary Pessinus, a nearby Roman settlement (De Cupere 1995), Sagalassos, a major highland city (De Cupere 2001;De Cupere et al 2017;Frémondeau et al 2017), and an assemblage from Roman houses in the coastal city of Ephesus (Forstenpointner, Galik, and Weissengruber 2010) allows us to assess the roles of different animals in Roman husbandry practices at Gordion in broader context. These data also inform the beef and pork debate introduced above by contrasting military (Gordion) with civic (Ephesus, Pessinus, Sagalassos) settlements.…”

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Rural Agricultural Economies and Military Provisioning at Roman Gordion (Central Turkey)

Çakırlar

Marston

2017

Environmental Archaeology

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Roman Gordion, on the Anatolian plateau, is the only excavated rural military settlement in a pacified territory in the Roman East, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the agricultural economy of a permanent Roman garrison. We present combined results of archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses, assessing several hypotheses regarding Roman military provisioning. The garrison adapted its dietary preferences to local agricultural systems, but maintained its traditional meat supply of pork, beef, and chickens as well. There is evidence for economic interdependence with local farmers and cattle herders, selfsufficiency in pork and chicken production, and complex relationships with autonomous sheep and goat herders who pursued their own economic goals. If the Roman military in Gordion exercised a command economy, they were able to implement that control only on specific components of the agricultural sector, especially cereal farming. The sheep and goat herding system remained unaltered, targeting secondary products for a market economy and/or broader provincial taxation authorities. The garrison introduced new elements to the animal economy of the Gordion region, including a new pig husbandry system. Comparison with contemporary non-military settlements suggests both similarities and differences with urban meat economies of Roman Anatolia.

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“…However, significant challenges exist to apply these methods in the Turkish context, given that the data required to provide historical estimates are scarce. Turkish literature covers studies of landscape reconstruction, particularly in the prehistoric periods, for instance, for Konya Basin in south-central Anatolia [ 48 ]; the ancient city of the Sagalassos in western Taurus mountain range [ 49 ]; northern Mesopotamia and central Anatolia [ 50 ]; Roman agricultural practices in central Turkey [ 51 ]; Çatalhöyük in central-southern Turkey [ 52 ] and Burdur Province in south-west Anatolia [ 53 ]. Despite the growing literature on agriculture and land use systems in the prehistoric periods, there is hardly any study on agricultural land reconstructions conducted for Turkey’s recent historical periods.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The estimation of non-irrigated crop area and production using the regression analysis approach: A case study of Bursa Region (Turkey) in the mid-nineteenth century

2021

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Agricultural land cover and its changing extent are directly related to human activities, which have an adverse impact on the environment and ecosystems. The historical knowledge of crop production and its cultivation area is a key element. Such data provide a base for monitoring and mapping spatio-temporal changes in agricultural land cover/use, which is of great significance to examine its impacts on environmental systems. Historical maps and related data obtained from historical archives can be effectively used for reconstruction purposes through using sample data from ground observations, government inventories, or other historical sources. This study considered historical population and cropland survey data obtained from Ottoman Archives and cropland suitability map, accessibility, and geophysical attributes as ancillary data to estimate non-irrigated crop production and its corresponding cultivation area in the 1840s Bursa Region, Turkey. We used the regression analysis approach to estimate agricultural land area and grain production for the unknown data points in the study region. We provide the spatial distribution of production and its cultivation area based on the estimates of regression models. The reconstruction can be used in line with future historical research aiming to model landscape, climate, and ecosystems to assess the impact of human activities on the environmental systems in preindustrial times in the Bursa Region context.

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Subsistence economy and land use strategies in the Burdur province (SW Anatolia) from prehistory to the Byzantine period

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

Variability in fluvial geomorphic response to anthropogenic disturbance

Variability in fluvial geomorphic response to anthropogenic disturbance

Rural Agricultural Economies and Military Provisioning at Roman Gordion (Central Turkey)

The estimation of non-irrigated crop area and production using the regression analysis approach: A case study of Bursa Region (Turkey) in the mid-nineteenth century

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