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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halstead, Paul.

Frederick, Charles D.

Series:

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 3.

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology--Greece.

Landscape archaeology.

Land use, Rural--Greece--History.

Land use, Rural.

Land settlement--Greece--History.

Land settlement.

History.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Preface / Charles Frederick and Paul Halstead

List of contributors

1. Holocene alluvial history of northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece / Athanasia Krahtopoulou

2. Palynological evidence for human influence on the vegetaion of mountain regions in northern Greece: the case of Lailias, Serres / Achilles Gerasimidis

3. Local vegetaion 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

7. 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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1841271845

OCLC:

46945454