@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0643, 

TITLE={Resilience: The importance of the long term}, 
  
AUTHOR={Sander Van Der Leeuw, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Archaeology, Society and Environment}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1: <br>Résilience and Landscape }, 
	
YEAR={2021}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/Resilience-The-importance-of-the-long-term}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0643}, 
	
ISSN={2752-4507}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The concept of resilience, first introduced in 1973, has become a major conceptual tool in the environmental sciences, and more recently in the study of socio-environmental systems. In archaeology, however, it has not yet found as wide a use. This paper introduces and explains the concept, emphasizes its relationship to the Complex Systems paradigm and presents an example of its application to transformations observed in the field. Its most useful application in archaeology is the study of the long term (centuries or millennia) where the dynamics are slow but persistent. In such cases, it enables a relational and dynamic description of history and the emergence of novelty.}}