Mediterranean Valley

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567312853

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Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this book traces the history of human settlement in the Biferno Valley from early prehistory to the present century. It also covers the parallel story of landscape development, showing that the two have to be understood together. It argues for the importance of human settlement, rather than climate (as is often argued) in shaping the Mediterranean landscape. This book provides an interdisciplinary study of a restricted region, but about an important theme: the relationship between people and landscape in the past, and what we can learn from it for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Mediterranean Valleys by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718519063

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Mediterranean Valley by Graeme Barker Pdf

From the lakeside encampment of Stone Age scavengers three-quarters of a million years ago to the problems facing modern-day farmers, A Mediterranean Valley documents the long-term settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, analysing the symbiotic relationship of its landscape and its inhabitants. Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this volume traces the history of human settlement in the Valley and shows how it is inextricably linked to the parallel story of landscape development. Unique in its geographical and historical time-scale, the Biferno Valley project is widely cited within the archaeological community and is considered the best example to date of the importance of human settlement in shaping the Mediterranean landscape.

Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199810970

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Mediterranean: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Eric Dursteler Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : Jamie Woodward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191608414

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The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean by Jamie Woodward Pdf

This volume explores the climates, landscapes, ecosystems and hazards that comprise the Mediterranean world. It traces the development of the Mediterranean landscape over very long timescales and examines modern processes and key environmental issues in a wide range of settings. The Mediterranean is the only region on Earth where three continents meet and this interaction has produced a very distinctive Physical Geography. This book examines the landscapes and processes at the margins of these continents and the distinctive marine environment between them. Catastrophic earthquakes, explosive volcanic eruptions and devastating storms and floods are intimately bound up within the history and mythology of the Mediterranean world. This is a key region for the study of natural hazards because it offers unrivalled access to long records of hazard occurrence and impact through documentary, archaeological and geological archives. The Mediterranean is also a biodiversity hotspot; it has been a meeting place for plants, animals and humans from three continents throughout much of its history. The Quaternary records of these interactions are more varied and better preserved than in any other part of the world. These records have provided important new insights into the tempo of climate, landscape and ecosystem change in the Mediterranean region and beyond. The region is unique because of the very early and widespread impact of humans in landscape and ecosystem change - and the richness of the archaeological and geological archives that chronicle this impact. This book examines this history and these interactions and places current environmental issues in long term context. Contributors : Ramadan Husain Abu-Zied Harriet Allen Jacques Blondel Maria-Carmen Llasat James Casford Marc Castellnou Andrew Goudie Andrew Harding Angela Hayes Tom Holt Babette Hoogakker Philip Hughes Jos Lelieveld John Lewin Francisco Lloret Francisco Lopez-Bermudez Mark Macklin Jean Margat Anne Mather Frédéric Médail Christophe Morhange Clive Oppenheimer Jean Palutikof Gerassimos Papadopoulos Josep Piñol David Pyle Jane Reed Neil Roberts Eelco Rohling Iain Stewart Stathis Stiros John Thornes Chronis Tzedakis John Wainwright

Author : Emma Blake,A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137249

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The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory by Emma Blake,A. Bernard Knapp Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory Written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field Spans the Neolithic through the Iron Age, and draws from all the major regions of the Mediterranean's coast and islands Presents the central debates in Mediterranean prehistory---trade and interaction, rural economies, ritual, social structure, gender, monumentality, insularity, archaeometallurgy and the metals trade, stone technologies, settlement, and maritime traffic---as well as contemporary legacies of the region's prehistoric past Structure of text is pedagogically driven Engages diverse theoretical approaches so students will see the benefits of multivocality

Author : John B. Thornes,John Wainwright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134729852

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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean by John B. Thornes,John Wainwright Pdf

The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment. Ideal for students who are studying a range of environmental issues, but want to see them linked within one regional context. The book begins with an introduction to the Mediterranean region, its history, physical and human geography and its environmental problems. It then goes on to examine: * The Dynamic Environment - climate variables and fluctuations, vegetation, the hydrological cycle of the basin and its watershed, processes of erosion, fire and the Mediterranean Sea *The Human Impact on the Environment - prehistoric and historic land use, traditional agriculture, rural and urban settlement and use of mineral resources * The Mediterranean Environment Under Increasing Pressure - the present human landscape, changes in agriculture in the 20th century, the impact of depopulation, pollution, water resources, desertification and potential climatic change. It then concludes with a discussion of the region's on-going environmental issues of water resources, land degradation, agricultural intensification and tourism, and considers how these can be approached using management techniques and national and regional policies.

Author : Effie F. Athanassopoulos,Luann Wandsnider
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536285

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Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes by Effie F. Athanassopoulos,Luann Wandsnider Pdf

The Mediterranean landscape record is recognized for its length and richness and the opportunity it offers to study the interaction between humans and their landscape. This volume explores a variety of current archaeological issues in the context of specific landscapes from southern Spain through Greece and Cyprus to Jordan and from antiquity to recent times. Over the last 25 years, researchers have initiated a dramatic expansion in theoretical approaches—both anthropological and classical. Over the same time span, a huge volume of field survey projects has been carried out in the Mediterranean arena. The contributors to Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes take stock of what has been learned, identify lacunae, and consider new approaches to our understanding of the rich surface landscape record of the Mediterranean. Their goal is to explore theoretically diverse interpretative themes and the methods that make those approachable.

Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191548864

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Rethinking the Mediterranean by W. V. Harris Pdf

In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing they range far afield to other Mediterraneans, real and imaginary, as distant as Brazil and Japan. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike. It speaks to ancient and medieval historians, to archaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.

Author : Kevin Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521853019

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The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes by Kevin Walsh Pdf

Reviews the palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology across the Mediterranean, from the Early Neolithic to the end of the Roman period.

Author : Faruk Tabak
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801887208

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The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870 by Faruk Tabak Pdf

Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting fortunes of Mediterranean city-states and empires in patterns of long-term economic and ecological change, this study shows how the quintessential properties of the basin -- the trinity of cereals, tree crops, and small livestock -- were reestablished as the Mediterranean's importance in global commerce, agriculture, and politics waned. Tabak narrates this history not from the vantage point of colossal empires, but from that of the mercantile republics that played a pivotal role as empire-building city-states. His unique juxtaposition of analyses of world economic developments that flowed from the decline of these city-states and the ecological change associated with the Little Ice Age depicts large-scale, long-term social change. Integrating the story of the western and eastern Mediterranean -- from Genoa and the Habsburg empire to Venice and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires -- Tabak unveils the complex process of devolution and regeneration that brought about the eclipse of the Mediterranean.

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444337341

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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean by Jeremy McInerney Pdf

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

Author : S. Bottema,G. Entjes-Nieborg,W. van Zeist
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9061911389

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Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape by S. Bottema,G. Entjes-Nieborg,W. van Zeist Pdf

Revised papers from a symposium entitled "The impact of ancient man on the landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Near East" held in Groningen, the Netherlands, March 1989.

Author : Alfred Thomas Grove,Oliver Rackham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300100558

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The Nature of Mediterranean Europe by Alfred Thomas Grove,Oliver Rackham Pdf

This large volume draws on evidence from fieldwork, historical records, archaeology, pollen analysis and recent research in discussing the ecology of Mediterranean Europe from the past to the present day. Grove and Rackham provide clear explanations and discussions of different ecosystems, of ruined landscapes, climate fluctuations and vegetation change, the impact of fire, terracing, agriculture and man's changing subsistence strategies, of coastal erosion and deforestation. A highly readable book, packed full of information, which also assesses the pessimistic view that many people hold over the future of the landscape and environment.

Author : James Schryver
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004181755

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Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean by James Schryver Pdf

This volume draws examples of work from around the Mediterranean basin to demonstrate the variety of archaeological studies being carried out, and the benefits each of these studies has enjoyed through the use of an interdisciplinary approach.