Re-thinking the ‘Green Revolution’ in the Mediterranean world

• Autores: Helena Kirchner, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, Corisande Fenwick, Aleks Pluskowski
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 97, Nº 394, 2023, págs. 964-974
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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’.