LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND TRADE IN ANCIENT GREECE: EVIDENCE FROM POLLEN DATA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Izdebski, Adam; Sloczynski, Tymon; Bonnier, Anton; Koloch, Grzegorz; Kouli, Katerina
• 署名单位: Jagiellonian University; Brandeis University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Uppsala University; Warsaw School of Economics; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa026
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 2596-2618
• 关键词: roman-empire; HISTORY; ECONOMY; robust

摘要

In this article we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from environmental history, we interpret our estimated trends in the regional presence of cereal, olive and vine pollen as proxies for structural changes in agricultural production. We present evidence that there was a market economy in ancient Greece and a major trade expansion several centuries before the Roman conquest. Our results are consistent with auxiliary data on settlement dynamics, shipwrecks and ancient oil and wine presses.