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A Mediterranean valley : landscape archaeology and annales history in the Biferno Valley / Graeme Barker ; with major contributions by Richard Hodges ... [et al.] ; & specialist contributions by Gill Clark ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Graeme.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land settlement--Italy--Biferno River Valley--History.
- Land settlement.
- Landscape archaeology--Italy--Biferno River Valley.
- Landscape archaeology.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Biferno River Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Biferno River Valley (Italy)--Antiquities.
- Biferno River Valley (Italy).
- Biferno River Valley (Italy)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A second volume containing the specialist supporting data collected by the archaeological project is also available, entitled ""The Biferno Valley: An Archaeological History of a Mediterranean Landscape - the Archaeological and Geomorphical Record"". This volume, edited by Graeme Barker, is published in the Leicester Archaeology Monograph series and is available from the School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester.
- Contents:
- Contents; Note on the Biferno Valley Survey; List of contributors; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Approaches to Mediterranean landscape history; 2. The Biferno valley: the modern landscape; 3. The Biferno Valley Survey: methodologies; 4. The natural landscape and its evolution; 5. Early prehistoric settlement; 6. The first agricultural communities; 7. The settlement expansion of the 2nd millennium bc; 8. Iron age chiefdoms (c.1000-500 BC); 9. Pentri, Frentani and the beginnings of urbanization (c. 500-80 BC)
- 10. Roman towns and territories (c. 80 BC-AD 600)11. The evolution of hilltop villages (AD 600-1500); 12. Feudalism and the 'Southern Question' (AD 1500 to the present); 13. Retrospect: the evolution of a Mediterranean landscape; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Companion volume to: The Biferno Valley survey: the archaeological and geomorphological record / edited by Graeme Barker.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-343) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613196729
- 9781283196727
- 1283196727
- 9780567312853
- 0567312852
- OCLC:
- 741690150
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