New Risk Management Study Results from University of Tulsa Described (Leaving Home: Technological and Landscape Knowledge As Resilience At Pre-holocene Kharaneh Iv, Azraq Basin, Jordan): Risk Management

2022 OCT 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting from Tulsa, Oklahoma, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Humanity’s relationship with the environment during the Holocene, and into the Anthropocene, is structured around our dependance on agricultural production, which has resulted in risk mitigation strategies that include intensive landscape modifications, among other tactics. However, to understand broader patterns of human resilience and the shifts in human/environment relationships, we need to look further back in time.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Science Foundation (NSF), University of California System, University of Tulsa.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Tulsa, “Through this paper, we explore cultural strategies of risk management and resilience in pre-Holocene communities and how these practices allowed hunter-gatherer communities to adapt to a changing environment. For over 1000 years, the Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV was a focal point on the landscape for hunter-gatherer groups, acting as an aggregation site for Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic peoples. Located in the eastern desert of Jordan, at the time of occupation the site was a lush wetland surrounded by a rich grassland environment, providing abundant food and other resources for the site’s occupants. However, over time the wetland began to dry up and by 18,600 cal BP Kharaneh IV was abandoned. In this paper, we discuss the final occupation of Kharaneh IV, linking the site’s abandonment to the increasing aridification of eastern Jordan. Environmental change led to the eventual abandonment of Kharaneh IV and other nearby sites, as people relocated within the Azraq Basin in search of new water resources during the Holocene.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Flexible technological strategies and knowledge of the landscape created resilient cultural practices that allowed these communities to use population movement as a risk management strategy.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Leaving Home: Technological and Landscape Knowledge As Resilience At Pre-holocene Kharaneh Iv, Azraq Basin, Jordan. The Holocene, 2022. The Holocene can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Danielle A. Macdonald, University of Tulsa, Dept. of Anthropology, 800 S Tucker Dr, Tulsa, OK 74104, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221121784. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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