Agricultural and pastoral landscapes in pre-industrial society : choices, stability and change / edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup and Althea Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Retamero, Fèlix, editor.

Schjellerup, Inge, editor.

Davies, Althea, editor.

Series:

Early agricultural remnants and technical heritage (EARTH): 8.000 years of resilience and innovation ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--History--To 1500.

Agriculture.

Pastoral systems--History--To 1500.

Pastoral systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through a series of case studies, this third volume in the Earth series deals with the technological constraints and innovations that enabled societies to survive and thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The contributions are structured into three sections to draw out particular commonalities and contrasts in the choices made by pre-industrial communities in the construction of varied landscapes and cultural heritage: Landnam, from the Old Norse for 'taking of land', deals with colonization, including the drivers and processes through which colonizers developed an understanding of the productive potential and limitations of their new lands.Fields and field systems: Field-walls are a distinctive and apparently timeless characteristic of many pre-industrial farming landscapes but they present many the challenges to their study, such as the effects of plowing, abandonment and land-use change and of urban development in fertile lowland zones which may eradicate, reduce or conceal past systems of land-use and division. The importance of indirect and proxy evidence is illustrated and the value of interdisciplinary and modeling approaches emphasized.Agro-pastoralism: focuses on the complex 'time-space adaptations' devised for managing cultivation and livestock production, particularly the need to prevent stock incursions into arable fields during the growing season whilst making effective use of seasonal grazing resources. The contributions focus on mountainous areas, where temporary migrations, in the form of transhumance, provided access to a diversity of resources based around seasonal constraints on their availability and productivity.

Contents:

Neolithic Agriculture in Mediterranean Wetlands : A Complement to Pastoralism at Polje Cepic (Istria, Croatia) / Andrea L. Balbo

Ancient Desert Farming in the Southern Araba Valley, Israel / Uzi Avner

The Northern Frontier : Northern Atlantic Farming / Christian Keller, Sophia Perdikaris

Becoming Islanders : Migration and Settlement in the Balearic Islands (10th-13th Centuries) / Helena Kirchner, Fèlix Retamero

The Transformation Of Riversides : The Example of the Alluvial Valleys of Languedoc and Lower Rhône Valley During the Medieval Period (9th-13th Centuries) / Aline Durand

The Formation of New Villages on The Northeastern Slopes of the Andes / Inge Schjellerup

Fields in Prehistoric Bohemia : Fact and Fiction / Dagmar Dreslerová

Stability and Changes in the Agricultural Use of Limestone Soils in Northern Estonia / Valter Lang

Prehistoric Agriculture and the Ancient Fields of Mikkeli Orijärvi, Finland / Esa Mikkola, Teija Alenius, Mika Lavento

Ridge and Furrow Fields : Field Systems ca. 1,000-1,800 as a Stabilising Factor in an Agricultural Society : a Danish Example / Per Grau Møller

Coping with Gravity : The Case of Mas l'Agustí (Montseny Mountains, Catalonia, Spain, ca. 15th-18th centuries) / Fèlix Retamero

Landscape Change and Staircase Farming in the Andes of Peru / Inge Schjellerup

Managing Slopes for Agricultural Purposes : Terrace Typology in Andalusi Hydraulic Systems (Spain) / Eugènia Sitjes

From a Pre-Urban to an Urban Landscape : Evidence for the Evolution of Early Medieval Plough System. Brussels, Belgium / Luc Vrydaghs, Yannick Devos, Paulo Charruadas, Linda Scott Cummings, Ann Degraeve

Pastoralism, Landscapes and Forest-Use in the Late Neolithic in Southern Germany / Neils Bleicher

Medieval Southern Alpine Mountains : perceptions and interweaving diverse sources / Aline Durand

Flexibility in Upland Farming : Pollen Evidence for the Role of Shielings in the Scottish Farm Economy from ca. 1,600-1,900 / Althea L. Davies

Moving Up and Down : Two Cases of Seasonal Family Dwellings in Mountainous Areas : Mid-Norway and the Southwestern Alps / Karoline Daugstad, Thomas K. Schippers

An Example of Vernacular Agro-Pastoral Landscape Perception : The Provençal Transhumant Shepherd / Thomas K. Schippers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782970125

1782970126

OCLC:

946788429