The Making Of The Cretan Landscape

Author : Oliver Rackham,Jennifer Moody
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 071903647X

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The Making of the Cretan Landscape by Oliver Rackham,Jennifer Moody Pdf

This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty.

Author : Oliver Rackham,Jennifer Alice Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 0719036461

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The Making of the Cretan Landscape by Oliver Rackham,Jennifer Alice Moody Pdf

This text aims to help the visitor to Crete understand its landscape. The authors explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. They explain the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examine contemporary threats to the island's natural beauty.

Author : Jonnie Godfrey,Elizabeth Karslake
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1856911888

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Landscapes of Western Crete by Jonnie Godfrey,Elizabeth Karslake Pdf

This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.

Author : Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Gloria Pungetti,A.M. Mannion
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402050640

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Mediterranean Island Landscapes by Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Gloria Pungetti,A.M. Mannion Pdf

Mediterranean islands exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are also many differences in terms of their human colonization and current anthropogenic pressures. This book addresses in three sections these characteristics and examines the major environmental changes that the islands experienced during the Quaternary period. The first section provides details on natural and cultural factors which have shaped island landscapes. It describes the environmental and cultural changes of the Holocene and their effects on biota, as well as on the current human pressures that are now threats to the sustainability of the island communities. The second section focuses on the landscapes of the largest islands namely Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Cyprus, Crete, Malta and the Balearics. Each island chapter includes a special topic reflecting a particular characteristic of the island. Part three presents strategies for action towards sustainability in Mediterranean islands and concludes with a comparison between the largest islands. Despite several published books on Mediterranean ecosystems/landscapes there is no existing book dealing with Mediterranean islands in a collective manner. Students, researchers and university lecturers in environmental science, geography, biology and ecology will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text while planners and politicians will welcome the succinct summaries as background material to planning decisions.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199802838

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Ancient Crete: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world 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. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Barry Molloy,Chloë N. Duckworth
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1407312715

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A Cretan Landscape Through Time by Barry Molloy,Chloë N. Duckworth Pdf

This book presents aspects of research on the archaeological investigations at the multi-period site of Priniatikos Pyrgos and surrounding area. Incorporating the Vrokastro Survey Project, the Istron Geoarchaeological Project, the Priniatikos Pyrgos Excavation Project and other researches, this volume presents interdisciplinary case-studies that deal with domestic, technological and mortuary practices at the site and how these relate to settlement and resource exploitation in the surrounding landscape. This is set within its environmental context at the local and regional levels, assessing both long term processes and shorter term events. The visual representation of materials and settlement complexity are approached using a combination of established and novel digital methods.

Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Barbara J. Hayden
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1931707596

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Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2 by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Barbara J. Hayden Pdf

CD-ROM for vol. 2 includes Appendices 1-6 and the Vrokastro archaeological survey project.

Author : Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623032807

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Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete by Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou Pdf

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into a remarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relations with the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East, and Egypt. After the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithic occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and later and more limited investigations of the Prepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during restoration work, no thorough exploration of the earliest occupation of the mound had been attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture, ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that were a result of the opening of a new excavation trench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 different contributors to the volume re-evaluate the importance of Neolithic Knossos and place it within the wider geographic context of the early island prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Jamie L. Reuland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009425025

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Music and the Making of Medieval Venice by Jamie L. Reuland Pdf

This path-breaking account of music's role in Venice's Mediterranean empire sheds new light on the city's earliest musical history.

Author : Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004278073

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Europe's Living Landscapes by Bas Pedroli,Anne van Doorn,Geert de Blust Pdf

Landscape is one of the most fascinating assets of Europe. The great diversity in landscapes reflects a multitude of historical layers. This book presents the story of some of the most expressive European landscapes. It explores how engagement may safeguard and improve landscape identity for the future.

Author : Andrew Shapland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009151542

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Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete by Andrew Shapland Pdf

Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.

Author : Lutz Käppel,Vassiliki Pothou
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783847102526

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Human Development in Sacred Landscapes by Lutz Käppel,Vassiliki Pothou Pdf

"Holy Landscape" is a term frequently used to describe a multidimensional phenomenon. What this actually comprises is hard to define. Precisely this question is addressed in this volume. The "holy landscape" depends on people's Weltanschauung and is influenced by their respective culture and ethos. It is not just a question of religious buildings and rituals, nor is a mere matter of explicating terms such as "pure" and "impure", magic and myths; it is about an expressive space in which the "ceremony and mood of rites and cults" take place. The contributions also deal with the emergence and continuing development of the term "holy landscape" and the changing expressions of religious mood.

Author : Mauro Agnoletti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031257131

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Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape by Mauro Agnoletti Pdf

Author : L. Vance Watrous
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424509

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Minoan Crete by L. Vance Watrous Pdf

A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: Did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?

Author : Gloria Pungetti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317112006

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Island Landscapes by Gloria Pungetti Pdf

Island Landscapes takes a critical look at the evolution of European islandscapes and seascapes to examine the conditions facing them in the twenty first century. Considering island landscapes as an expression of European culture, this book envisages future trends and presents clearly the need to find a balance between preservation and development to ensure sustainability. Both large and small islands are illustrated in the book including the British Isles, Malta and Cyprus as well as archipelagos in Norway, Italy and Greece. Their unique identities and values reveal the remarkable breadth of cultural heritage possessed by these diverse European islands. An interdisciplinary approach is applied to the history, perception, characterisation and planning of islandscape and seascape in Europe, to support culturally-oriented strategies for these fragile landscapes.