Combining global perspectives with localized case studies and integrating scientific and material evidence of environmental change in historical narratives are amongst the main challenges for the field of global history in addressing the dawn of the Anthropocene. In this article, we trace the relationship of the city of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) with its riverine hinterland, from the first millennium BCE until the nineteenth century CE. We argue that the study of long-term historical trajectories of microregions not only depends on context from regional and global history timelines, but also has the potential to provide insights relevant to those scales in return. Zooming in and scaling up must go hand in hand in order for global history perspectives to be properly informed, and archaeology and natural sciences have crucial insights to offer – although importantly only when evidence comes from well-contextualized frameworks.

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放大和放大：全球历史和高清考古学视角对 Gerasa（杰拉什，约旦）城市-环境关系的长期持续时间

将全球视角与本地化案例研究相结合，并将环境变化的科学和物质证据整合到历史叙述中，是全球历史领域应对人类世黎明的主要挑战之一。在本文中，我们追溯了从公元前一千年到公元 19 世纪，杰拉萨市（约旦杰拉什）与其河流腹地的关系。我们认为，对微观区域长期历史轨迹的研究不仅取决于区域和全球历史时间线的背景，而且有可能提供与这些尺度相关的见解作为回报。放大和放大必须齐头并进，以便正确了解全球历史观点，