Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Anton Bonnier (anton.bonnier@antiken.uu.se), Tymon Słoczyński, Grzegorz Koloch (gkoloch@sgh.waw.pl), Katerina Kouli (akouli@geol.uoa.gr) and Adam Izdebski (adam.izdebski@uj.edu.pl)
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Anton Bonnier: Uppsala University
Grzegorz Koloch: Warsaw School of Economics
Katerina Kouli: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Adam Izdebski: Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

No 126, Working Papers from Brandeis University, Department of Economics and International Business School

Abstract: In this paper we use pollen data from a number of sites in southern Greece and Macedonia to study long-term vegetation change in these regions 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.

Keywords: agricultural production; ancient Greece; environmental history; market integration; pollen data; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 F14 N53 N73 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2018-11
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Journal Article: Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data (2020)
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