in: Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt and Susan Pollock (eds.) Coming to Term with the Future: Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies, Leiden 2023, 83-96.
This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them
in the S... more This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them
in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis
of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region,
especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that
specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped
to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these
changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and
state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles
remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.
in: Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt and Susan Pollock (eds.) Coming to Term with the Future: Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies, Leiden 2023, 83-96.
This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them
in the S... more This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them
in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis
of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region,
especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that
specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped
to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these
changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and
state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles
remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.
Uploads
Papers by A. Ricci
in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis
of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region,
especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that
specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped
to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these
changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and
state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles
remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.
in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis
of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region,
especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that
specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped
to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these
changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and
state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles
remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.