BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news580@daw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220920T142339 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221213T181500 SUMMARY:Papyri and climate history. Combining data in the assessment of the Roman Egypt agricultural economy DESCRIPTION:Nowadays\, talking about agriculture and the sequence of action s and processes that enable the soil to blossom seasonally and a seed to g row and germinate into a ripe crop\, the connection with nature’s rhythm s and cycles has become more and more evanescent. Technologies and human i ntervention allow the modern farmer to overcome and compensate almost comp letely for potential natural and climatic events affecting the agricultura l balances and production and the very concept of periodicity of the crops fades away progressively. But how was it back then when nature\, changing seasons and climate were the only agents ruling the rhythms of farming? T hanks to its richness of evidence\, Roman Egypt provides unparalleled test ing ground. Thus\, the Egyptian corpus of papyri providing valuable inform ation on the many aspects somehow connected to the agricultural sector has been selected as field of observation to assess the deep correlation betw een agriculture along with its economy and climate events. Prices and cost s\, dates and seasonality\, timing and rhythms of labour\, trade and produ ction are certainly some of the different notions of the ancient economy t hat can be extracted from the scrutiny of the extant evidence and single\, thorough studies have been conducted on each of them. However\, first of all\, they should be considered as a whole\, as the several outputs of a s ingle equation with an unknown factor\, climate. The combined and systemat ic data analysis will hopefully cast new light on the influences played by external and climatic factor on the agricultural market formation and pas t economic trends. X-ALT-DESC:

Nowadays\, talking about agriculture and the sequence of acti ons and processes that enable the soil to blossom seasonally and a seed to grow and germinate into a ripe crop\, the connection with nature’s rhyt hms and cycles has become more and more evanescent. Technologies and human intervention allow the modern farmer to overcome and compensate almost co mpletely for potential natural and climatic events affecting the agricultu ral balances and production and the very concept of periodicity of the cro ps fades away progressively. But how was it back then when nature\, changi ng seasons and climate were the only agents ruling the rhythms of farming? Thanks to its richness of evidence\, Roman Egypt provides unparalleled te sting ground. Thus\, the Egyptian corpus of papyri providing valuable info rmation on the many aspects somehow connected to the agricultural sector h as been selected as field of observation to assess the deep correlation be tween agriculture along with its economy and climate events. Prices and co sts\, dates and seasonality\, timing and rhythms of labour\, trade and pro duction are certainly some of the different notions of the ancient economy that can be extracted from the scrutiny of the extant evidence and single \, thorough studies have been conducted on each of them. However\, first o f all\, they should be considered as a whole\, as the several outputs of a single equation with an unknown factor\, climate. The combined and system atic data analysis will hopefully cast new light on the influences played by external and climatic factor on the agricultural market formation and p ast economic trends.

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