Landscape and land use in postglacial Greece / / edited by Paul Halstead and Charles Frederick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969404003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000
• ISBN: 9786612452666; 9781282452664; 1282452665; 9780567077189; 0567077187
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Collana: Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; ; 3
• Altri autori (Persone): HalsteadPaul; FrederickCharles D
• Disciplina: 949.5/05
• Soggetti: Landscape archaeology - Greece; Land use, Rural - Greece - History; Land settlement - Greece - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Visibility7. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 high