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Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece.

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Τίτλος: Emerging capitalism and sociocultural niche construction in early modern Greece.
Συγγραφείς: Liakopoulos GC; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany. liakopoulos@uoi.gr.; Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. liakopoulos@uoi.gr., Groß M; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany., Guzowski P; University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland., Kouli K; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece., Lamprakis D; Hellenic Society of Middle Eastern Studies, Halkida, Greece.; Ionian University, Corfu, Greece., Masi A; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.; La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy., Vakkas T; Geospatial Enabling Technologies, Moschato, Attica, Greece., Xoplaki E; CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy., Izdebski A; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany. izdebski@umk.pl.; Institute for Advanced Study, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland. izdebski@umk.pl.; Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. izdebski@umk.pl., Fernandes R; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany.; Department of Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Warsaw, Poland.; Masaryk University, Arne Faculty of Arts, Brno-střed, Czech Republic.; Princeton University, Climate Change and History Research Initiative, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Πηγή: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2026 Jul 22; Vol. 17 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Jul 22.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article; Historical Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Nature Pub. Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101528555 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2041-1723 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20411723 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Nat Commun Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: [London] : Nature Pub. Group
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Capitalism* , Ecosystem*, Agriculture/history ; Greece ; Humans ; Bayes Theorem ; Albania ; History, 16th Century ; Social Group
Περίληψη: Sociocultural niche construction is a key mechanism behind the current planetary crisis. Its causal drivers in past societies remain poorly understood due to a lack of data and modeling complexities. Here, we apply a Bayesian machine learning algorithm to a geospatial quantitative dataset compiled from 15th-16th c. CE Ottoman taxation registers, to explore shifts in drivers of land use choices in village communities in southern Greece. Greek and Albanian communities living within the same landscape experienced a transition from unstable political conditions and limited commodification of agriculture to lasting peace, intense market integration and state fiscal pressure, characteristic for early European capitalism. We found that prior to this economic transformation, ethno-cultural identities (Greek or Albanian) played an important role in local ecological niche construction. However, within two human generations (50 years), village communities shifted away from relying on ethnic identities in their ecological choices and their strategies became strongly connected to the investment potential of each village community and the environmental characteristics of their surroundings. Thus, our analysis demonstrates that the pressures of early modern socio-economic systems necessitated highly adaptive behavior from local communities that reduced the ecological significance of traditional identities.
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Competing Interests: Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
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