127706 20241125101159.0 doi 10.3390/land12081550 sideral 134781 ART-2023-134781 eng Ariño, Enrique Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The archaeological site of Ancient Termez is located in southern Uzbekistan. Despite the arid environment, the city benefited from its strategic position near two rivers, the Amu Darya and the Surkhan Darya. Its significance was mainly related to the expansion of trade routes connecting Eurasia. The city comprises several enclosures that attest long-term human-environment interactions. In order to identify the adaptive dynamics of the settlement models during an extended chronology covering the period from c. 300 BCE to c. 1220 CE (Greco-Bactrian/Yuezhi, Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Islamic periods), a multidisciplinary study has been carried out, which includes: (1) archaeological excavations in several areas of the urban complex; (2) pedestrian surveying inside some enclosures and in the urban periphery; (3) an aerial survey based on high-resolution satellite imagery; (4) AMS dating of charcoal and bone samples; (5) archaeobotanical investigation through anthracological analysis; (6) zooarchaeological studies. The results point to variations in the development of the inhabited spaces, in which abandonment and occupation took place. The zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data demonstrate the exploitation of natural resources in different environments (i.e., arid areas and irrigated land) and a certain evolution during the period considered. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2020-114096GA-C22 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2020-114096GB-C21 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.2 2023 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 68 / 182 = 0.374 2023 Q2 T2 0.73 2023 Ecology 2023 Q1 Nature and Landscape Conservation 2023 Q1 Global and Planetary Change 2023 Q3 4.9 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Uribe, Paula Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8911-0393 Angás, Jorge (orcid)0000-0003-3854-2158 Piqué, Raquel Portero, Rodrigo Martínez-Ferreras, Verónica Gurt, Josep M. 3000 033 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Arqueología 12, 8 (2023), 1550 [30 pp.] Land (Basel) Land 2073-445X 17767305 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127706/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2751659 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127706/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:127706 articulos driver 2024-11-22-12:10:41 ARTICLE