Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)

Animal management is shaped by its environmental and landscape context, but these factors are rarely investigated quantitatively in zooarchaeological studies. Here we aim to examine the relationship between trends in zooarchaeological data and environmental and climatic dynamics between the Middle B...

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Autores: Trentacoste, Angela, Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna, Guimarães, Silvia, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Zooarchaeology
Roman period
Bronze age
Iron age
Agriculture
Biometry
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spelling Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)Trentacoste, AngelaNieto-Espinet, AriadnaGuimarães, SilviaValenzuela-Lamas, SilviaZooarchaeologyRoman periodBronze ageIron ageAgricultureBiometryAnimal management is shaped by its environmental and landscape context, but these factors are rarely investigated quantitatively in zooarchaeological studies. Here we aim to examine the relationship between trends in zooarchaeological data and environmental and climatic dynamics between the Middle Bronze Age and Late Antiquity in lowland northern Italy (Po–Friulian Plain). This region provides an ideal test case to investigate the impact of landscape variables (precipitation, solar irradiance, elevation, soil characteristics) and climate evolution due to the area's relatively homogenous topography and climatic conditions. This study presents a new elaboration and visualisation of zooarchaeological data from northern Italy, investigates correlations between these data and landscape variables, and contextualises trends in relation to regional environmental and climate proxies at two scales. This analysis reveals a shift towards more heterogeneous livestock on a regional level during the Late Iron Age and Roman period, and strong evidence for a correlation between cattle representation and local soil characteristics at a site-level during the Bronze Age. Consideration of climate data shows little relationship between species representation, livestock body size, and climate proxies, indicating that human social dynamics rather than climate change were the primary driver to changes in animal management on the regional macro-scale.This work was financially supported by the ERC-Starting Grant ZooMWest – Zooarchaeology and Mobility in the Western Mediterranean: Husbandry production from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity (award number 716298), funded by the European Research Council Agency (ERCEA) under the direction of Sílvia Valenzuela-Lamas, and by a Gerda Henkel Stifling Scholarship (AZ44/F/20) awarded to Angela Trentacoste. We are grateful to Thomas Huet for support with data analysis in R.ElsevierEuropean Research CouncilConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2023202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/341471reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.11.005Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3414712026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
title Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
spellingShingle Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
Trentacoste, Angela
Zooarchaeology
Roman period
Bronze age
Iron age
Agriculture
Biometry
title_short Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
title_full Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
title_fullStr Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
title_full_unstemmed Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
title_sort Systems change: investigating climatic and environmental impacts on livestock production in lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC - AD 700)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Trentacoste, Angela
Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
Guimarães, Silvia
Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
author Trentacoste, Angela
author_facet Trentacoste, Angela
Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
Guimarães, Silvia
Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
author_role author
author2 Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
Guimarães, Silvia
Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv European Research Council
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Zooarchaeology
Roman period
Bronze age
Iron age
Agriculture
Biometry
topic Zooarchaeology
Roman period
Bronze age
Iron age
Agriculture
Biometry
description Animal management is shaped by its environmental and landscape context, but these factors are rarely investigated quantitatively in zooarchaeological studies. Here we aim to examine the relationship between trends in zooarchaeological data and environmental and climatic dynamics between the Middle Bronze Age and Late Antiquity in lowland northern Italy (Po–Friulian Plain). This region provides an ideal test case to investigate the impact of landscape variables (precipitation, solar irradiance, elevation, soil characteristics) and climate evolution due to the area's relatively homogenous topography and climatic conditions. This study presents a new elaboration and visualisation of zooarchaeological data from northern Italy, investigates correlations between these data and landscape variables, and contextualises trends in relation to regional environmental and climate proxies at two scales. This analysis reveals a shift towards more heterogeneous livestock on a regional level during the Late Iron Age and Roman period, and strong evidence for a correlation between cattle representation and local soil characteristics at a site-level during the Bronze Age. Consideration of climate data shows little relationship between species representation, livestock body size, and climate proxies, indicating that human social dynamics rather than climate change were the primary driver to changes in animal management on the regional macro-scale.
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