{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.018528049408131755, 'fraction_numerical': 0.005661348430262481, 'mean_word_length': 5.48, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. By John M. Marston. 2017. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, Philadelphia. 224 pp.

The first chapter introduces the aims and methodological approach of the volume and presents crucial information on the site, its chronology, and its lengthy excavation history. The second chapter is dedicated to an overview and explanation of the two theoretical models that will be employed and integrated throughout the remainder of the text: behavioral ecology and resilience thinking. Behavioral ecology, when used in archaeological contexts, relates to foraging theory, and in the specific context of the monograph, to the production of food through agriculture and animal husbandry. Resilience thinking looks at the relationship between ecological systems and social systems, in other words the reciprocal relationships between humans and environments. The description of each theoretical framework is simultaneously detailed and vague in that the history of the theories and their current functions are thoroughly presented, but almost no examples or hypotheticals are employed to demonstrate how they would work in an archaeological context. Similarly, it would have been helpful to see these theories integrated with past and current archaeological schools of thought since Marston often criss-crosses the boundaries between processual and postprocessual archaeology. The ancient site of Gordion, located in central Anatolia (Turkey), is composed of a citadel mound, a lower town, an outer town, and multiple tumuli or burial mounds. Although population density varied over the centuries, the site was occupied consistently from the early Bronze Age until the late Roman period or roughly 3000 BC until the fifth century AD. After a period of almost total abandonment, the urban center and surrounding region were resettled during the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries.