Transhumance : Papers from the International Association of Landscape Archaeology Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne 2018.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Mark.

Contributor:

Herring, Pete.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Transhumance

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021.

Summary:

Transhumancepresents a collection of papers exploring the practice, impact and archaeology of British and European transhumance, the seasonal grazing of marginal lands by domesticated livestock, usually accompanied by people, often young women. All but one were first given in 2018 at the Newcastle and Durham conference of the International Association of Landscape Archaeology. Their range is wide, geographically (Britain, Italy, Spain, France and Norway) and temporally (prehistory to the present day). The approaches taken include excavation and artefact analysis, fieldwalking, archaeological survey, landscape archaeology and history, analysis of ancient texts, inscriptions and records, ethno-archaeology, social network analysis and consideration of the delicate balances between the natural resources that transhumants exploit and the intangible cultures that are developed and sustained as they do so. The volume re-emphasises that much of European history and culture has been and in some places continues to be dependent on the annual migrations to and then back from the mountains, forests and bogs. It notes and explains how transhumance systems are not timeless and unchanging, but instead respond to wider economic and social changes. But, it also shows how transhumance itself contributes to changes, and continuities, including how the organisation of access to common pastures crystallises principles that underpin much broader legal and social systems.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Information

Contents

About Access Archeology

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction: the recognition of transhumance in Britain Mark Bowden and Pete Herring

2. Evidence for transhumance in British prehistory Mark Bowden

3. 'Frequently the winter grazing grounds are many miles away from the summer ones' M. Pasquinucci

4. The TraTTo project: paths and pastures from prehistory to modern times in Southern Tuscany

5. Response diversity and the evolution of pastoral landscapes in the western Pyrenees Gragson et al

6. Smart ways through the downs Lea, English and Tapper

7. Extremes of British transhumance Pete Herring

8. Intangible cultural heritage of transhumance landscapes Bele et al.

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ISBN:

1-80327-129-9

OCLC:

1427063926