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Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review
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: Received: 31 October 2022 / Approved: 2 November 2022 / Online: 2 November 2022 (04:19:44 CET)
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Jacobson, M.J. Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review. Sustainability 2022, 14, 16591. Jacobson, M.J. Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review. Sustainability 2022, 14, 16591.
Abstract
Archaeology is often argued to provide a unique long-term perspective on humans that can be utilised for effective policy-making, for example in discussions of resilience and sustainability. However, the specific archaeological evidence for resilient/sustainable systems is rarely explored, with these terms used simply to describe a community that survived a particular shock. In this study, a set of 74 case studies of papers discussing archaeological evidence for resilience/sustainability are identified and analysed using bibliometric methods. Variables from the papers are also quantified to assess patterns and provide a review of current knowledge. A great variety of scales of analysis, case study locations, stressors, resilient/sustainable characteristics, and archaeological evidence types are present. Climate change was the most cited stressor (n=40) and strategies relating to natural resources were common across case studies, especially subsistence adaptations (n=35), other solutions to subsistence deficiencies (n=23), and water management (n=23). Resilient/sustainable characteristics were often in direct contrast to one-another, suggesting the combination of factors is more important than each factor taken individually. Further quantification of well-defined variables within a formally-produced framework is required to extract greater value from archaeological case studies of resilience/sustainability.
Keywords
archaeology; resilience; sustainability; citation analysis; collapse; climate change; agriculture; natural resources
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Archaeology
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