Future Shock: Lessons Learned From Centenary to Millenial Records of Soil Change.

Dragoman and other Sultanic records of crop yields and irrigation, in Cyprus, in concert with detailed, extensive transdisciplinary field studies of soils, provide new views into agrarian management over century timescales.  Archaeological and environmental survey provide deeper time perspective on the resilience of soils couterposed with durable anthropogenic changes to soils over the past 7,000 to 10,000 years. Application of State-and-Transition Theory to soil change is considered in light of these field studies.