Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2000
176 pages
978-0-567-07718-9 (ISBN)
Description
Collaboration between prehistorians and palaeoecologists is radically changing our understanding of the relationship between landscape, land use and human settlement in Greece. The chapters in this volume include case studies and broader syntheses, developments of both on-site and off-site field methodology, explorations of palaeoecological and archaeological evidence, and discussions of how the palaeoecological and archaeological records are formed. Contributions range geographically over the contrasting natural and cultural landscapes of northern and southern Greece and the lowlands and highlands, and chronologically over the whole postglacial period, including studies of plant and animal ecology and of palaeoecological formation processes in the present. The difficulty of disentangling climatic and anthropogenic causes of palaeoecological change is a recurrent theme.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-07718-9 (9780567077189)
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Paul Halstead | Charles Frederick
Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece
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12/2000
Sheffield Academic Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1. Holocene Alluvial History of Northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece
- 2. Palynological Evidence for Human Influence on the Vegetation of Mountain Regions in Northern Greece: The Case of Lailias, Serres
- 3. Local Vegetation and Charcoal Analysis: An Example from Two Late Neolithic Sites in Northern Greece
- 4. Holocene Climate Change in Crete: An Archaeologist's View
- 5. Human Impact on the Vegetation of Southern Greece and Problems of Palynological Interpretation: A Case Study from Crete
- 6. Deconstructing Agricultural Terraces: Examining the Influence of Construction Method on Stratigraphy, Dating and Archaeological Visibility
- 7. Landscape Exploitation via Pastoralism: Examining the 'Landscape Degradation' versus Sustainable Economy Debate in the Post-Mediaeval Southern Argolid
- 8. Land Use in Postglacial Greece: Cultural Causes and Environmental Effects
- 9. The Scale and Intensity of Cultivation: Evidence from Weed Ecology
- 10. Settlement Instability and Landscape Degradation in the Southern Aegean in the Third Millennium BC
- 11. Soils and Site Function: The Laconia Rural Sites Project
