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1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations |
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Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 3 |
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Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 3.
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| Contents |
1. Holocene alluvial history of northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece / Athanasia Krahtopoulou -- 2. Palynological evidence for human influence on the vegetation of mountain regions in northern Greece, the case of Lailias, Serres / Achilles Gerasimidis -- 3. Local vegetation and charcoal analysis, an example from two late neolithic sites in northern Greece / Maria Ntinou and Ernestina Badal -- 4. Holocene climate change in Crete, an archaeologist's view / Jennifer Moody -- 5. Human impact on the vegetation of southern Greece and problems of palynological interpretation, a case study from Crete / Margaret Atherden -- 6. Deconstructing agricultural terraces, examining the influence of construction method on stratigraphy, dating and archaeological visibility / Charles D. Frederick and Athanasia Krahtopoulou -- Landscape exploitation via pastoralism, examining the 'landscape degradation' versus sustainable economy debate in the post-mediaeval southern Argolid / Hamish Forbes -- 8. Land use in postglacial Greece, cultural causes and environmental effects / Paul Halstead -- 9. The scale and intensity of cultivation, evidence from weed ecology / Amy Bogaard [and others] -- 10. Settlement instability and landscape degradation in the southern Aegean in the third millennium BC / Todd Whitelaw -- 11. Soils and site function, the Laconia rural sites project / Christopher Mee and Peter James |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Landscape archaeology -- Greece
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Land use, Rural -- Greece -- History
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Land settlement -- Greece -- History
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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Antiquities
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Land settlement
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Land use, Rural
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Landscape archaeology
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Prehistorie.
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Landgebruik.
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Archeologie.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Halstead, Paul.
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Frederick, Charles D
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| ISBN |
9780567077189 |
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0567077187 |
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1282452665 |
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9781282452664 |
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6612452668 |
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9786612452666 |
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