1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996423846803316

Autore

Knodell Alex R.

Titolo

Societies in Transition in Early Greece : An Archaeological History / / Alex R. Knodell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-520-38054-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

930.1/6

Soggetti

Bronze age - Greece

Iron age - Greece

Social archaeology - Greece

HISTORY / Ancient / Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Archaeology of Early Greece -- 1. Landscape, Interaction, Complexity -- 2. Articulating Landscapes in Central Greece -- 3. Confronting Hegemony in Mycenaean Central Greece -- 4. Reconstituting Polity in the Postpalatial Bronze Age -- 5. Transforming Village Societies in the Prehistoric Iron Age -- 6. Expanding Horizons in the Protohistoric Iron Age -- Conclusions: Early Greece and the Bigger Picture(s) -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would eventually expand to nearly all shores of the Middle Sea. Alex R. Knodell argues that in order to understand how ancient Greece changed over time, one must analyze how Greek societies constituted and reconstituted themselves across multiple



scales, from the local to the regional to the Mediterranean. Knodell employs innovative network and spatial analyses to understand the regional diversity and connectivity that drove the growth of early Greek polities. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367567003321

Autore

Kumar Lalit

Titolo

Remote Sensing of Above Ground Biomass / Lalit Kumar, Onisimo Mutanga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039212101

3039212109

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (264 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Above ground biomass has been listed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the five most prominent, visible, and dynamic terrestrial carbon pools. The increased awareness of the impacts of climate change has seen a burgeoning need to consistently assess carbon stocks to combat carbon sequestration. An accurate estimation of carbon stocks and an understanding of the carbon sources and sinks can aid the improvement and accuracy of carbon flux models, an important pre-requisite of climate change impact projections. Based on 15 research topics, this book demonstrates the role of remote sensing in quantifying above ground biomass (forest,



grass, woodlands) across varying spatial and temporal scales. The innovative application areas of the book include algorithm development and implementation, accuracy assessment, scaling issues (local-regional-global biomass mapping), and the integration of microwaves (i.e. LiDAR), along with optical sensors, forest biomass mapping, rangeland productivity and abundance (grass biomass, density, cover), bush encroachment biomass, and seasonal and long-term biomass monitoring.