Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in Pre-Industrial Society: Choices, Stability and Change

By: RETAMERO, FelixContributor(s): DAVIES, Althea | SCHJELLERUP, IngeMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage (EARTH): 8,000 Years of Resilience and Innovation ; 3Publication details: Oxford Oxbow Books 2016 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Agriculture--History, Ancient | Pastoral systems--History
Contents:
I. LANDNÁM1.1 Introduction1.2 Ancient desert farming in the Southern 'Araba Valley, Israel1.3 Neolithic agriculture in Mediterranean wetlands: a complement to pastoralism at Polje Cepic (Istria, Croatia)1.4 The Northern frontier. Northern Atlantic farming1.5 Becoming islanders. Migration and settlement in the Balearic Islands (10th-13th centuries)1.6 The transformation of wet lands: the example of the alluvial valleys of Languedoc and Provence during the medieval period (10th-13th centuries)1.7 The formation of new villages on the northeastern slopes of the AndesII. FIELDS AND FIELD SYSTEMS2.1 Introduction2.2 Fields in prehistoric Bohemia -fact and fiction2.3 Stability and changes in the agricultural use of limestone soils in northern Estonia2.4 Prehistoric agriculture and the ancient fields of Mikkeli Orijärvi, Finland2.5 Ridge and furrow fields - Field systems c. 1000-1800 as a stabilising factor in an agricultural society - a Danish example2.6 Coping with gravity: the case of mas l'Agustí (Montseny Mountains, Catalonia, Spain, c.15th-18th centuries)2.7 Landscape Change and Staircase Farming in the Andes of Peru2.8 Managing slopes for agricultural purposes: terrace typology in Andalusi hydraulic systems (Spain)2.9 From a pre-urban to an urban landscape. Evidence for the evolution of early medieval plough system. Brussels, BelgiumIII. AGRO-PASTORALISM3.1. Introduction3.2 Pastoralism, landscapes and forest-use in the late Neolithic in southern Germany3.3 Flexibility in upland farming: pollen evidence for the role of shielings in the Scottish farm economy from c.1600-19003.4 Moving up and down. Two cases of seasonal family dwellings in mountainous areas: Mid-Norway and the South-Western Alps3.5 An example of vernacular agro-pastoral landscape perception: the Provençal transhumant shepherd
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I. LANDNÁM1.1 Introduction1.2 Ancient desert farming in the Southern 'Araba Valley, Israel1.3 Neolithic agriculture in Mediterranean wetlands: a complement to pastoralism at Polje Cepic (Istria, Croatia)1.4 The Northern frontier. Northern Atlantic farming1.5 Becoming islanders. Migration and settlement in the Balearic Islands (10th-13th centuries)1.6 The transformation of wet lands: the example of the alluvial valleys of Languedoc and Provence during the medieval period (10th-13th centuries)1.7 The formation of new villages on the northeastern slopes of the AndesII. FIELDS AND FIELD SYSTEMS2.1 Introduction2.2 Fields in prehistoric Bohemia -fact and fiction2.3 Stability and changes in the agricultural use of limestone soils in northern Estonia2.4 Prehistoric agriculture and the ancient fields of Mikkeli Orijärvi, Finland2.5 Ridge and furrow fields - Field systems c. 1000-1800 as a stabilising factor in an agricultural society - a Danish example2.6 Coping with gravity: the case of mas l'Agustí (Montseny Mountains, Catalonia, Spain, c.15th-18th centuries)2.7 Landscape Change and Staircase Farming in the Andes of Peru2.8 Managing slopes for agricultural purposes: terrace typology in Andalusi hydraulic systems (Spain)2.9 From a pre-urban to an urban landscape. Evidence for the evolution of early medieval plough system. Brussels, BelgiumIII. AGRO-PASTORALISM3.1. Introduction3.2 Pastoralism, landscapes and forest-use in the late Neolithic in southern Germany3.3 Flexibility in upland farming: pollen evidence for the role of shielings in the Scottish farm economy from c.1600-19003.4 Moving up and down. Two cases of seasonal family dwellings in mountainous areas: Mid-Norway and the South-Western Alps3.5 An example of vernacular agro-pastoral landscape perception: the Provençal transhumant shepherd