Cultural ecological theory is applied to a spatially and temporally bounded archaeological data set to document long-term paleoecological processes and associated sociopolitical behaviors. Volumetric excavations, treating the material culture of an archaeological matrix similar to an ecological core, can yield quantifiable frequencies of surplus goods that provide a multiproxy empirical lens into incremental changes in land use practices, natural resource consumption, and, in this case, likely overexploitation. Archaeological methods are employed to quantify cultural ecological processes of natural resource exploitation, industrial intensification, sustainability and scarcity, and settlement collapse during the colonial transition between Carthaginian and Roman North Africa. The data indicate that overexploitation of olive timber for metallurgical fuel taxed the ecological metabolism of the Zita resource base, likely contributing to a collapse of the entire local economic system.

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在的黎波里塔尼亚 Zita 迦太基-罗马城市土墩的考古记录中量化剩余和可持续性

文化生态理论被应用于空间和时间有限的考古数据集，以记录长期的古生态过程和相关的社会政治行为。体积挖掘，处理类似于生态核心的考古矩阵的物质文化，可以产生可量化的剩余商品频率，为土地使用实践、自然资源消耗以及在这种情况下可能的过度开发的增量变化提供多代理经验视角. 在迦太基和罗马北非之间的殖民过渡期间，考古学方法被用来量化自然资源开发、工业集约化、可持续性和稀缺性以及定居点崩溃的文化生态过程。